Japanese New Religions Scriptures

Japanese new religions, known in Japanese as shinshukyo, are new religious movements founded in Japan chiefly since the mid nineteenth century, blending elements of older Shinto and Buddhist tradition with distinctive new teachings and organizational structures centered on a founding figure. This group gathers the foundational scriptures of several of these movements: Tenrikyo's Ofudesaki, Mikagura-uta and Osashizu, recorded by founder Nakayama Miki as revealed writings, dance-song verses and oral directives respectively; Omoto-kyo's own Ofudesaki and Reikai Monogatari, automatic-writing and visionary texts attributed to Deguchi Nao and Deguchi Onisaburo; and Konkokyo's Konkokyo Kyoten, the collected teachings of founder Kawate Bunjiro. Each text functions as the primary scriptural authority for its own movement, transmitted through direct revelation to a founder figure rather than descent from an older canon, a pattern scholars identify as characteristic of the wider shinshukyo phenomenon.