Ofudesaki (Oomoto)

Ofudesaki (Oomoto)

The Ofudesaki is the original holy text of Oomoto, a Japanese new religion founded in 1892 by Deguchi Nao. Encompassing roughly 200,000 pages of Japanese paper, it is written entirely in uneven hiragana which even Oomoto followers regard as unskilled. It is claimed that Deguchi was illiterate and the hiragana is an emanation of a powerful kami named Ushitora no Konjin. It mostly consists of denouncement of the current state of the world and commands to create a new world in this place.

Today a more coherent text by cofounder Onisaburo Deguchi is more frequently used as Oomoto's holy scripture.

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