Taikyo Institute

The Great Teaching Institute (大教院, Taikyoin)^[1] was an organization under the Ministry of Religion in the Empire of Japan.^[2]

Great Teaching Institute

大教院
Predecessor	Department of Divinities
Successor	Bureau of Shinto Affairs
Formation	1872
Dissolved	1875
Parent organization	Ministry of Religion

History

It was founded in 1872^[3] to train kyōdo shōku or religious teachers because the Missionary Office and Department of Divinities were unsuccessful in their national indoctrination objectives.^[4] It was intended as a joint Shinto and Buddhist organization, but ended up becoming entirely dominated by Shinto.^{[citation needed]}

Medium Teaching Institutes (中教院, Chukyoin) were established in each prefectural capital and Small Teaching Institutes (小教院, Shokyoin) were established in various cities.^[5]

On January 1, 1875, an arson attack on the Great Teaching Institute caused confusion, with four Jōdo Shinshū sects informally announcing their departure from the Great Teaching Institute.^[6]

On May 3, 1875, the Great Teaching Institute was dissolved by the Ministry of Religion^[7][8] and was succeeded by the Bureau of Shinto Affairs^[9] and later Shinto Taikyo.^[2]

Ame-no-Minakanushi was one of its patron deities, also known under the Buddhist name Myōken.^[10]

The "Great Teaching" is the same word that is used in the "Great Doctrine" or Proclamation of the Great Doctrine, and Taikyo in Shinto Taikyo.

See also

• Bureau of Shinto Affairs
• Shintō Taikyō
• Kyodo Shoku
• Sect Shinto
• Toyama Chukyoin [ja; simple]

References

1. "Encyclopedia of Shinto詳細". 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-03-11.
2. "教派神道とは – 神道大教" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-06-26.
3. 中村元ほか編 (2002). 岩波仏教辞典 (第二版 ed.). 岩波書店. pp. 220–222. ISBN 978-4000802055.
4. Yoshio Yasumaru, Masato Miyaji, eds. Nihon modern thought compendium 5 Religion and the State, p. 431
5. Berthon, Jean-Pierre (April 1995). "Helen Hardacre, Shinto and the State, 1868-1988, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, « Studies in Church and State », 1989, XVI-203 p." Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 50 (2): 448–450. doi:10.1017/s0395264900054135. ISSN 0395-2649. S2CID 165716719.
6. Masamichi Ogahara (August 2004). Study of Daikyoin : Development and Failure of Religious Administration in the Early Meiji Period (in Japanese). Keio University Press. pp. Appendix: chronology. ISBN 4766410904.
7. 村上 2007, pp. 103–104.
8. Kawamura Tadanobu (March 2017). "Part 1: State Sovereignty and Recognized Shrines Chapter 1: "State Sovereignty" in Shrine Administration". Legal Studies of Modern Shinto (in Japanese). Kobundo.
9. 藤井貞文 (1977-03-01). 明治国学発生史の研究 (in Japanese). 吉川弘文館. pp. 1–750.
10. Mori, Mizue. "Amenominakanushi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugakuin University. Retrieved 2020-11-07.

Bibliography

• 井上順孝ほか編 (January 1996). 新宗教教団・人物事典. 弘文堂. ISBN 978-4335160288.
• 井上, 順孝 (April 1991). 教派神道の形成. 弘文堂. ISBN 978-4335160219.
• 葦津珍彦 (2006-11-01). 新版 国家神道とは何だったのか (in Japanese). 神社新報社. ISBN 9784915265105.
• 村上, 重良 (April 1974). 慰霊と招魂-靖国の思想. 岩波新書. 岩波書店. ISBN 978-4004121565.
• 村上, 重良 (August 2007). 天皇制国家と宗教. 講談社学術文庫. 講談社. ISBN 978-4061598324.
• 菅田, 正昭 (1985). 古神道は甦る. たま出版. ISBN 4884811321.（文庫：1994年.ISBN 4886924603.）「教派神道に流れる古神道の本質」の章あり.

External links

• Shinto Taikyo (sect of Shinto) Archived 2020-10-27 at the Wayback Machine