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Kitamura Sayo

Japanese religious leader

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establishment of Tenshō Kōtai Jingū-kyō

  • In Tenshō Kōtai Jingū-kyō

    It was founded by Kitamura Sayo (1900–67), a peasant of Yamaguchi Prefecture, whose charismatic preaching took the form of rhythmic singing and dancing. She had a revelation in 1945 that she was possessed by a Shintō deity, Tenshō-Kōtaijin (another name for the Shintō sun goddess Amaterasu Ōmikami). She traveled…

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