This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Across the last decades of her long life, Nakayama Miki dictated the Ofudesaki, the text Tenrikyo holds as its foundational scripture, a project of sustained religious composition carried out over decades rather than delivered in a single revelation. That span of composition means the Ofudesaki reflects a teaching that developed and was restated over time, rather than a doctrine fixed once and left unchanged.
She died in 1887 at the age of eighty nine, an unusually long life for the period, revered by the tradition as its Foundress, Oyasama, a title that marks her as more than an early leader: Tenrikyo holds her as the living shrine of God the Parent and the human instrument through whom the Ofudesaki was itself revealed.
That combination, a scripture dictated across most of an adult lifetime by a woman Tenrikyo holds to have been continuously indwelt by God the Parent from 1838 onward, sets Nakayama Miki apart from religious founders whose formative revelation is remembered as a single defining episode; for Tenrikyo, her entire subsequent life after 1838 is itself part of the revelation.