Ayabe, in Kyoto Prefecture, is the spiritual headquarters of Omoto and the hometown of the foundress Deguchi Nao. Its sacred precinct, Baisho-en, is the site of the religion's major seasonal festivals, distinct from the administrative centre the movement later built at nearby Kameoka.
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Type of Site DetailAyabe was the target of the First Omoto Incident in February 1921, when Japanese police, acting on charges of lese majeste and violation of the Newspaper Law, arrested movement leaders and dynamited the shrine buildings at Baisho-en; the structures were rebuilt only for the movement to be suppressed again, far more severely, in the Second Omoto Incident of 1935. 1 Connections
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This source names Deguchi Nao directly: "and the hometown of the foundress Deguchi Nao."
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This source names Ayabe directly: "Nao was an impoverished widow in Ayabe, near Kyoto, who on the lunar New Year of 1892, at the age of fifty six, experienced possession by a kami she called Ushitora no Konjin, whom she came to..."
Source Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial JapanNancy K. Stalker
This source names Ayabe directly: "is held on the sixth of November at Ayabe and commemorates Deguchi Nao, the woman whose revelations beginning in 1892 founded Omoto."
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Kyoto, Cities This source names Kyoto directly: "Ayabe, in Kyoto Prefecture, is the spiritual headquarters of Omoto and the hometown of the foundress Deguchi Nao."
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This source names Ayabe directly: "A second, harsher suppression followed in 1935, when the movement's Ayabe and Kameoka headquarters were dynamited and Onisaburo was imprisoned; he was released only after Japan's 1945 surrender and..."
Source Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial JapanNancy K. Stalker
This source names Ayabe directly: "movement founded by Deguchi Nao at Ayabe in 1892."
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