Kai Fukuda - Fukudenkai

Japanese: 福田海 - ふくでんかい

A religion founded in 1908 by Nakayama Tsuyu (1862-1936). Its headquarters are in Kibitsu, Okayama City. While Tsuyu was active as a mountain ascetic of the Tozan school of Shugendo, he was influenced by the rise of nationalism before the First Sino-Japanese War and studied at Inoue Enryo's Philosophy School, and opened the Kansai Philosophy School in Osaka. He formed a unique religious philosophy that combined Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism with Taoism and Zhuangzi, and actively preached the merits of accumulating good deeds in secret. Those who followed his teachings were named Fukuda Kaiin, after the four fields of good fortune of Prince Shotoku, and in 1900 he obtained a share of the eternal flame of the law of Mount Hiei, making him the center of the religious faith of the sect, and in 1908 announced the founding of Fukuda Kaiin in Osaka.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中山通幽（つうゆう）(1862‐1936)が1908年創始した宗教。本部は岡山市吉備津。通幽は修験道当山派の山伏として活躍する一方で，日清戦争前のナショナリズムの台頭の影響をうけ，井上円了の哲学館で学び，大阪に関西哲学館を開いた。神儒仏に老荘を加味した独特の宗教哲理を形成し，陰徳積善の功徳を盛んに説いた。その説に従う者を聖徳太子の四福田になぞらえて福田海員と名付け，1900年比叡山の不滅の法灯の分灯を得て教団の信仰の中心にすえ，08年大阪で福田海の開創を表明した。

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