Tenrikyo Roles

The senior leadership role of Tenrikyo, the Japanese new religion founded by Nakayama Miki in the nineteenth century after she came to be revered as the Shrine of God the Parent. The Shinbashira is Tenrikyo's spiritual and administrative head, the senior ministerial authority over the religion's organisation and teaching, a position that has descended through the Nakayama family since the founder's own lifetime and continues to preside over the sanctuary complex at Tenri today.