Kawate Bunjirō

…means, literally, “golden light”) by Kawate Bunjirō (1814–83); and Tenri-kyō (tenri means “divine reason or wisdom”) by Nakayama Miki (1798–1887)—were based mostly on individual religious experiences and aimed at healing diseases or spiritual salvation. These sectarian Shintō groups, numbering 13 during the Meiji period (1868–1912), were stimulated and influenced by…