Masatetsu Inoue - Inoue Masakane

Japanese: 井上正鉄 - いのうえ・まさかね

Year of death: February 18, 1849 (March 12, 1849)
Year of birth: 1790.9.12
A Shintoist of the late Edo period and the founder of Misogikyo. He was the second son of Ando Shintetsu, a samurai of the Tatebayashi Domain in Kozuke Province (Gunma Prefecture). At the age of 11, he was adopted into the Tomita family, relatives on his mother's side, and took his mother's maiden name, Inoue. In his youth, he became familiar with Zen, traveled around the country and learned about social conditions. He became a disciple of Isono Hiromichi and studied medicine, and also became a student of physiognomy practitioner Mizuno Nanboku, learning the breathing techniques of physiognomy, acquiring a wide range of knowledge and skills. For a while, he lived in Edo under the name Inoue Shui, and made a living by divination, but in 1833 (Tenpo 4), he had an experience in which a young woman appeared to him as a messenger of God in a dream. The following year, he entered the Shinto priest Shirakawa family, and in 1831, he became a priest at Umeda Shinmei Shrine in Adachi County, Musashi Province (Saitama Prefecture), and began full-scale Shinto missionary work, attracting many people. However, the Magistrate of Temples and Shrines suspected him of being a new sect that was misleading people, and in May of the same year, he was exiled to Miyakejima. He continued to educate the islanders. His disciples campaigned for his pardon, but failed, and he died on Miyakejima. <Works> Shinto Yuitsu Mondosho <References> Misogi Bunkakai ed., Research on Misogikyo

(Junko Inoue)

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Japanese:

没年：嘉永2.2.18(1849.3.12)
生年：寛政2.8.4(1790.9.12)
江戸後期の神道家,禊教の教祖。上野国(群馬県)館林藩の武士,安藤真鉄の次男。11歳のとき,母方の縁者である富田家の養子となり,母の旧姓の井上姓を名乗る。青年時代に禅に親しみ,諸国を旅し社会情勢を知る。磯野弘道の門に入り医学を修め,また観相家水野南北の門下生となり観相法の調息術を学ぶなど,多様な知識技術を身につける。しばらく江戸で井上周易と称して,卜筮によって身を立てていたが,天保4(1833)年,夢の中に神の使いの若い女性が現れるという体験をする。翌年,神祇伯白川家に入門し,天保11年,武蔵国(埼玉県)足立郡梅田神明宮の神職となり,本格的な神道布教活動に入り,多くの人々が集まってきた。だが,その活動内容について寺社奉行より人々を惑わす新規異流の疑いをかけられ,同14年5月,三宅島に配流となる。以後も島民に対する教化活動を行う。門人たちは,赦免運動を行うが実現せず,三宅島にて死去。<著作>『神道唯一問答書』<参考文献>みそぎ文化会編『禊教の研究』

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