The Ofudesaki, also called the Omoto Shinyu, is Omoto's founding scripture, over two hundred thousand pages of automatic writing produced by Deguchi Nao beginning in 1892 under the direction of the kami Ushitora no Konjin. Nao was illiterate and dictated the writing through possession rather than composing it as an author would, and Onisaburo Deguchi later organized the material into Omoto's systematic teaching. The name, meaning tip of the divine writing brush, is used generically across several Japanese new religions for a founder's revealed automatic writing and is not unique to Omoto; Tenrikyo's own, textually unrelated scripture carries the identical name, which is why this record disambiguates the two.
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StructureProduced as continuous automatic writing across roughly two hundred thousand pages beginning in 1892, with no division into numbered chapters or verses, unlike Tenrikyo's unrelated scripture of the same name. 1 Status
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Omoto's founding scripture.
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