The Chronology of Onisaburo Deguchi

Onisaburo and his wife Sumi

Japanese Years (Imperial Era)	Christian Years (Anno Domini)	Dates (Lunar Calendar)	Dates (Solar Calendar)	Events
Tempo ("Heaven Preserved") 7	1836	Dec. 16	Jan. 22, Tempo 8	Foundress Nao Deguchi was born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto.
Meiji ("Enlightened Rule") 4	1871	Jul. 12	Aug. 27	Onisaburo Deguchi (his real name: Kisaburo Ueda) was born in Anao, Sogabe-cho, Kameoka-shi, Kyoto as the first son of Yoshimatsu Ueda and his wife Yone.
Meiji 10	1877	---	---	At age 6, Onisaburo earned the reputation of being a child prodigy.
Meiji 13	1880	---	---	Onisaburo entered elementary school.
Meiji 15	1882	Dec. 26	Feb. 3, Meiji 16	Onisaburo's wife, Sumi, was born as the fifth daughter of Foundress Nao Deguchi.
Meiji 16	1883	---	---	Onisaburo became a substitute teacher at his elementary school.
Meiji 25	1892	Jan. 1	Jan. 30	Nao began having spiritual dreams in her home in Ayabe, northwest of Kyoto. On Jan. 10 (or Feb. 8), she was possessed by what the kami claimed himself as Ushitora ("Northeast")-no ("of")-Konjin ("God of Retribution"). Later, Onisaburo identified him as Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto ("The Earth-Eternally-Standing-Deity"), the creator of the earth. ♣Konjin (Metal-spirit)--In onmyo (yin-yang) cosmology metal is the element associated with the west and corresponds to the number seven. Traditionally regarded as a dangerous Taoist deity, Konjin the "killer of seven" occupies certain directions once every five years (i.e. twelve times in the 60-year cycle of "stems and branches"). A Chinese text declared that if Konjin were offended he would kill seven people. If the members of one's own family were not sufficiently numerous, he would make up the number with the people next door. Directional taboos associated with Konjin and other directional deities were a preoccupation of the Heian nobility, and beliefs about dangerous directions and the wisdom of circumventing danger by travelling in auspicious directions remain in Japan today. In spite of his fearsome reputation Konjin revealed himself through Nao Deguchi of Omoto and through Bunjiro Kawate, founder of Konko-kyo to be the benevolent parent-deity. ♣For Nao's Ofudesaki, see Content of the Ofudesaki.
Meiji 26	1893	---	---	At age 22, Onisaburo studied zoology and Japanese classics in Sonobe near his hometown Anao.
Meiji 26	1893	March	---	Regarded as insane for screaming that Ushitora-no-Konjin would remodel the world, Nao was placed under house arrest for 40 days. She began automatically writing Ushitora-no-Konjin's messages on the wall with a nail (later with a writing brush); they would be compiled as the Ofudesaki ("Written Oracles").
Meiji 27	1894	---	---	The Sino-Japanese War broke out as prophesied in the Ofudesaki message of Meiji 25 (1892). Nao tied up with Konko-kyo, a religious organization that worshipped Konjin (= Ushitora-no-Konjin).
Meiji 29	1896	---	---	At age 25, Onisaburo ran a milking factory in Anao. ♣The cow is associated with both Kamu-susa-no-wo-no-oh-kami (the Creator of the universe and the Saviour Deity) and Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto (the creator of the earth). ♣Kamu-sasa-no-wo is related to Gozu Tenno ("Ox-head Emperor"), the popular Buddhist name of the purifying kami Susa-no-wo-no-mikoto, tutelary deity of the Gion Shrine and Gion Festival. ♣Ushi of Ushitora-no-Konjin (another name of Kuni-toko-tachi) means "ox" or "cow."
Meiji 30	1897	Mar. 3	---	Nao broke ties with Konko-kyo; she enshrined Ushitora-no-Konjin in the storeroom of an adherent, Isuke Umehara.
Meiji 31	1898	Feb. 8	---	Onisaburo passed out as he was assailed by thugs.
Meiji 31	1898	Feb. 9	Mar. 1	For a week from this day to the 15th (or Mar. 1 to 7), Onisaburo's soul, at the command of Messenger Matsuoka ("Pine Hill") of Ko-no-hama-saku-ya-hime ("Princess-Blossoming-Brilliantly-Like-the-Flowers-of-the-Trees") dwelling in Mt. Fuji, went through an initiatory experience of exploring the three major strata of the spiritual world--shin-kai ("the world of divinities"), gen-kai ("the material world") and yu-kai ("the world of lost spirits")--while his physical body remained still in a cave on Mt. Takakuma. The enlightenment he attained through this mystical union of god and man made Onisaburo aware of his mission to save the world as the full physical manifestation of Kamu-susa-no-wo-no-oh-kami, the Creator of the universe. ♣In Chapter 1 of Volume 1 of the Reikai Monogatari, Onisaburo says that his weeklong spiritual training on Mt. Takakuma has enabled him to see through the past, the present and the future, to learn the mysteries of the divine world and to acquire the ability to foresee future events of the material world thousands of years ahead.
Meiji 31	1898	Aug. 23	Oct. 8	Onisaburo met Nao in Ayabe with the assistance of Nao's third daughter, Hisa.
Meiji 32	1899	May 24	Jul. 3	Onisaburo revisited Ayabe at Nao's invitation.
Meiji 32	1899	---	---	The altar for Ushitora-no-Konjin was relocated from the storeroom of Isuke Umehara to the house of Takezoh Nakamura.
Meiji 33	1900	Jan. 1	Jan. 31	Based on Omoto's revelations, Onisaburo married Nao's fifth daughter, Sumi, to become a son-in-law.
Meiji 33	1900	---	Apr. 2	Onisaburo set up the Kin-mei Reigakkai ("Golden Light") Society for Spiritual Studies. ♣Kin = Kon (as in Konjin) = "gold" or "Ushitora-no-Konjin." ♣Mei = hi (sun) and tsuki (moon) = the Creator = "Kamu-susa-no-wo-no-oh-kami."
Meiji 33	1900	Jun. 8	Jul. 4	Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi and others went to the Island of Kan-muri ("Crown") to observe a religious ceremony to pull Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto out of the island.
Meiji 33	1900	Jul. 8	Aug. 2	Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi and others went to the Island of Kutsu ("Straw Sandal") near the Island of Kan-muri to set Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto free again.
Meiji 33	1900	Aug. 8	---	Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi and others climbed Mt. Kurama to fulfill a divine mission.
Meiji 34	1901	Mar. 8	Apr. 26	Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi and others visited a former cite of the Grand Shrines of Ise, the summit of the hierarchy of Shinto shrines in Japan, to take home some pure water from there. ♣Incidentally, the Inner Shrine of the Grand Shrines of Ise enshrines Ama-terasu-oh-mi-kami ("The Heaven-Shining-Great-August-Deity," "The Sun Goddess"), the ancestral deity of the Imperial family, whereas the Outer Shrine enshrines Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto ("The Earth-Eternally-Standing-Deity" = Ushitora-no-Konjin = YHWH).
Meji 34	1901	May 16	Jul. 1	Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi and others visited the Izumo Shrine in Shimane to obtain some sacred fire from there. ♣The Izumo region was the domain of Susa-no-wo-no-mikoto ("His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness" = a partial manifestation of Kamu-susa-no-wo-no-oh-kami), who, according to the state-compiled history book the Kojiki ("Records of Ancient Matters") of A.D. 712, performed a heroic exploit of killing Yamata-no-orochi ("the Eight-Forked Serpent") with his ten-grasp saber.
Meiji 34	1901	---	---	After their visits to the Islands of Kan-muri and Kutsu and to the Izumo Shrine, Nao (possessed by Ama-terasu-oh-mi-kami; associated with fire) and Onisaburo (possessed by Susanoh-no-mikoto; associated with water) began arguing with each other. It was later dubbed the Battle of Kami (Kami = ka [fire] + mi [water]; in Shinto, kami is often symbolized by the cross with the vertical line representing ka [fire] and the horizontal line, mi [water]). ♣According to a story in the Kojiki, Amaterasu and Susanowo are siblings. One day, when Susanowo visits his sister, she fears that he has come to steal her territory. Void of such ambitions, Susanowo proves his innocence. However, his men's exciting behavior goes overboard to such an extent that Amaterasu becomes furious and hides in her rock-dwelling. This plunges the world into darkness. Amaterasu is so emotional as to neglect her duty, and in this respect, she is at fault. Nontheless, all the other deities blame it on innocent Susanowo and banish him from heaven. ♣Kojiki depicts Susanowo as a reckless devil, but Onisaburo stresses that he is actually the redeemer of the sins of all deities.
Meiji 34	1901	Jun. 8	---	Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi and others revisited the Island of Kutsu.
Meiji 34	1901	Sep. 8	---	In conflict with Onisaburo over the management of Omoto, enraged Nao hid into the main sanctuary of the Kimpu ("Golden Peak") Shrine on Mt. Misen, as if to synchronize it with or act out Ama-terasu-oh-mi-kami's closing behind her of the door of the Heavenly Rock-Dwelling. ♣In Buddhist cosmology, Mt. Misen (= Mt. Sumeru, Mt. Myokoh) soars to the sky in the center of the world.
Meiji 35	1902	Jan. 28	Mar. 7	Onisaburo and Sumi's first daughter, Asano (alias Naohi), was born. She would be the Third Spiritual Leader of Omoto.
Meiji 36	1903	---	---	Nao's oldest son Takezoh, who had disappeared for 17 years, returned home.
Meiji 37	1904	Aug. 11	---	Kisaburo Ueda (= Onisaburo Deguchi) formally assumed the name of Onisaburo Deguchi in accordance with the Ofudesaki messages.
Meiji 38	1905	Apr. 15	---	For 12 days until the 27th, Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi and others stayed on the Islands of Kan-muri ("Crown") and Kutsu ("Straw Sandal") in the Sea of Japan to make votive prayers for Japan's triumph over Russia.
Meiji 39	1906	Jul. 22	---	At age 35, Onisaburo left Ayabe as he was admitted to the KotenKokyusho ("Institute for the Study of the Japanese Classics") in central Kyoto.
Meiji 40	1907	---	---	Onisaburo graduated from the Koten Kokyusho with the highest honors; he also passed Shinto priests' examination.
Meiji 40	1907	Mar. 21	May	Onisaburo served as a licensed priest for the Kenkun Shrine (consecrated to the warlord Nobunaga Oda) in central Kyoto.
Meiji 40	1907	---	December	Onisaburo left the Kenkun Shrine to work for the Osaka church of Mitake-kyo, one of the thirteen government-approved Shinto sects which worships Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto (= Ushitora-no-Konjin); in the following year, he was elected Director of the Diocese of Western Japan. His reputation as a healer and a preacher spread rapidly, as did his popularity with the followers, and he was put in charge of the Great Shrine of Mitake-kyo in Ikudama, Tennoji-ku, Osaka.
Meiji 41	1908	Feb. 15	---	Onisaburo celebrated the 10th anniversay of his initiation on Mt. Takakuma (literally, "High Bear"; this mountain corresponds to the mount Zion in the light of Omoto's idea of kata). On this auspicious day, he obtained his first true acolyte in ten years, Jinsai Yuasa, after completing "a decade of trials and tribulations" as announced in Nao's Ofudesaki automatic writings. ♣Onisaburo had to endure the physical and mental abuses of the senior members, who put Nao on the pedestal, and of Nao, who failed to realize that he was the Maitreya incarnated whom she had long awaited.
Meiji 41	1908	---	Aug. 1	Onisaburo developed the Kin-mei Reigakkai ("Golden Light") Society for Spiritual Studies into the Dai Nippon Shusaikai ("Society for the Purification and Reform of Japan"), the direct predecessor of Omoto.
Meiji 42	1909	---	February	Omoto published the first issue of the Chokurei-gun ("Army of Direct Soul Portion of God") magazine.
Meiji 42	1909	---	Nov. 11	The spirit of Supreme Deity Kuni-toko-tachi of the earth's divne world was brought to Omoto from Mt. Misen.
Meiji 42	1909	---	---	Nao completed 75 days of ascetic practices.
Taisho ("Great Rightousness") 2	1913	---	Jul. 12	The Dai-Nippon Shusai-kai ("Greater Japan") Association for the Enforcement of Religious Ethics (which was often loosely called Omoto) officially adopted the designation of Omoto-kyo ("the Omoto religion").
Taisho 3	1914	Jun. 17	---	The construction of the Kinryu-kai ("Gold Dragon Sea") Pond in the precincts of Ayabe got under way.
Taisho 4	1915	---	---	The second-phase construction of the Kinryu-kai began.
Taisho 5	1916	May 25	Jun. 25	Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi, Naohi and others went to the Island of Kami ("Divinity") in the Seto Inland Sea to invite to Ayabe the spirit of Toyo-kumo-nu-no-mikoto ("The Luxuriant-Integrating-Master-Deity"), the wife-deity of Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto, from the island. ♣This is the first of a series of such missions.
Taisho 5	1916	Sep. 9	Oct. 5	After their third visit to the Island of Kami, Nao, Onisaburo, Sumi, Naohi and others stayed overnight at the Tanimae residence in Matsushima, Osaka. There Nao received the message from Ushitora-no-Konjin (= Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto), revealing that none other than Onisaburo was the Maitreya incarnated whom Nao had been awaiting for ages. For Nao, who had long belittled Onisaburo and dismissed him as just another low-ranking deity, this was the greatest shock she ever had in her life. ♣The message was: "The spirits of Maitreya had all been contained in the Island of Kami ("Divinity"). Hitsujisaru-no-Konjin (= Toyo-kumo-nu-no-mikoto), Susa-no-wo-no-mikoto and Komatsu-bayashi ("Pine Grove"; an aide-deity for Susa-no-wo-no-mikoto) have been doing great jobs as the spirits of Maitreya. Maitreya is the Ancestral Deity of the Universe; Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto is the ancestral deity of the earth." ♣Just like Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto, Toyo-kumo-nu-no-mikoto had to be withdrawn into the Italian Island of Sardinia in the southwest of Jerusalem. This is why she earned the name Hitsujisaru ("Southwest")-no ("of")-Konjin ("God of Retribution"). ♣The Island of Kami is a model for the Island of Sardinia. ♣This "Copernican revolution" in the history of Omoto marks the end of the Nao-centered divine work (as John the Baptist) and the beginning of the Onisaburo-centered divine work (as Jesus the Christ). ♣With the realization that Onisaburo was the Maitreya incarnated did Nao achieve enlightenment.
Taisho 6	1917	---	Jan. 1	Omoto launched nationwide advertizing blitz with its Shinrei-kai ("World of Spirit") magazine.
Taisho 6	1917	Mar. 3	Apr. 23	Tsurudono Chikako, a niece of the Empress Meiji, became a member of Omoto on her first visit to Ayabe. ♣There was a rumor going around that Onisaburo is an illegitimate child of His Imperial Highness Prince Taruhito of the Arisugawa Clan, and Tsurudono Chikako, learning calligraphy from His Imperial Highness Prince Taruhito, visited Ayabe to see if the rumor was true. To her astonishment, Onisaburo was the spitting image of the prince, and this prompted her to become a member. ♣In fact, Onisaburo's mother, Yone, had an affair with His Imperial Highness Prince Taruhito and became pregnant. In those days, the political situation was so volatile that even members of the Imperial family were in jeopardy. Against this backdrop, the prince told Yone to conceal their love child if it were a boy. Yone hurried to marry Yoshimatsu Ueda to cover up the whole thing. She gave birth to a baby boy, and it was Kisaburo Ueda--namely, Onisaburo Deguchi. ♣As proof, the sword for defense that the prince gave to Yone for their child was discovered from an old Omoto follower's house and was reported in the Dec., Showa 53 (1978) edition of the Mainichi Newspapaer. ♣Circumstantial evidence abounds that the Imperial family is the offspring of a lost tribe of Israel. For example, it is believed that General Douglas MacArthur, who was at first rude to Emperor Hirohito, turned polite and even deferential to the Emperor in the end, presumably because the Emperor showed MacArthur the proof of his family's consanguinity with the house of David. Were this true, Onisaburo as a descendant of David would fulfill the biblical prerequisites for the Messiah. ♣Coincidentally, Onisaburo was born in the year of the sheep (= the Lamb), and since he is henjo-nyoshi ("having the female soul in the male body) as Omoto's teachings reveal, he would be qualified for the daughter of Zion, an enlarged model of Mt. Takakuma. ♣Of the many projects Onisaburo was fostering at the time, two in particular caused the authorities the greatest concern. One was the building of a base for Omoto's missionary activities in Tokyo and the other was the recruiting for Omoto of famous figures of the day as well as members of the aristocracy. Among the latter were such outstanding personages as Chikako Tsurudono (wife of Baron Tsurudono and niece of the consort of Emperor Meiji). There were also Viscount Iwashita, Court Councillor Haruzo Yamada, Viscount Mizuno, and Prince Asaka-no-Miya, a son of Emperor Meiji, to mention only a few.
Taisho 7	1918	Jul. 12	Aug. 18	Onisaburo was ordered by kami to remain motionless with his body on the floor for 75 days.
Taisho 7	1918	Oct. 3	Nov. 6	Nao ascended to heaven on the very day of the end of World War I. She was 81.
Taisho 7	1918	---	Dec. 2	Instead of Nao, Onisaburo began receiving messages from Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto. They were called Izunome Shinyu ("The Revelations of the Izunome-Spirit"). ♣Izunome is the state where the Izu-Spirit and the Mizu-Spirit, the two major types of spirit according to Onisaburo, are in perfect union. ♣Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto and Nao are of the Izu-Spirit lineage while Onisaburo, of the Mizu-lineage. Strictly speaking, as the full physical manifestation of the Creator of the universe, Onisaburo intrinsically has the Izunome-Spirit, but to help Kuni-toko-tachi be reinstated as head of the world, he has purposely moved to the status of the Mizu-Spirit. ♣Izu as in the Izu-Spirit refers to the "strict" and "fierce" attributes of kami, whereas Mizu as in the Mizu-Spirit describes the "lenient" and "enlivening" attributes of kami.
Taisho 8	1919	---	Sep. 16	Omoto observed a ceremony to open Mt. Hongu ("The Original Shrine"), which the organization had purchased on Feb. 25 the same year. ♣According to the Reikai Monogatari, it is on this very mountain that Kamu-susa-no-wo-no-ohkami and Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto decided on measures to revamp the world; the date was Sep. 8 of 350,000 years ago.
Taisho 8	1919	---	Nov. 18	Omoto purchased the remains of the castle of warlord Mitsuhide Akechi in Kameoka.
Taisho 9	1920	---	---	Omoto bought up Taisho Nichi-Nichi ("Daily") Newspaper Company to spread its teachings.
Taisho 9	1920	---	---	Omoto observed the ceremony of putting up the ridge-beam of a shrine on Mt. Hongu.
Taisho 10	1921	Feb. 9	Mar. 18	Dao Yuan, a Taoist religion, was set up in the Shandong Province of China. It later tied up with Omoto. ♣Dao Yuan worships Zhi Sheng Xian Tian Lao Zu (= Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto) followed by Lao-tzu, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and Confucius. ♣According to the Reikai Monogatari, Lao-tsu is a soul-portion of Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto. ♣About eighty miles northeast of Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in China, is a place called Bin Xian. One day in 1916 or 1917, the governor of Bin Xian, a man called Wu Fusen, and the then Chief of the Militia Headquarters of Bin Xian, Liu Shaoji, built an altar in front of a shrine in the county hall dedicated to Shang Zhenren, prayed for his spirit to descend, and received an orcle. Shang Zhenren is the name of a great Taoist sage of long ago. In the middle of the ceremony this sage's spirit descended and spoke deliberately and slowly, "Lao Zu has come down to earth for a short time to save the world for eons to come. This is a truly rare occasion, which will not come again for tens of thousands of years. Build an altar and worship him." Lao Zu is an abbreviation of Zhi Sheng Xian Tian Lao Zu, which means the God of the Universe. In accordance with this instruction, in the spring of 1921, a new religious group called Dao Yuan came into being. The group built a mother temple in Jinan to be the center of Dao Yuan. In Peking, however, they built their world headquarters. And apart from the religious group Dao Yuan, another group was called the World Red Swastika Society.
Taisho 10	1921	Jan. 5	Feb. 12	The government cracked down on Omoto (The First Omoto Incident). Onisaburo was arrested and sent to prison in Kyoto after escorted from his president room at Taisho Nichi-Nichi Newspaper Company in Umeda, Osaka. ♣As a result of the Omoto teaching that salvation began with the ordinary people under his leadership, Onisaburo was accused of lese-majeste (injurious affront to the sovereign) and imprisoned, while the Omoto headquarters was attacked.
Taisho 10	1921	---	Jun. 17	Onisaburo was released on bail after 126 days of imprisonment; he soon returned home in Ayabe.
Taisho 10	1921	---	Jun. 25	The government ordered Omoto to remodel the tomb of Nao in Tennoh-daira, Kyoto because of its resemblance to that of the Emperor.
Taisho 10	1921	---	Aug. 10	Omoto started the Kami-no-Kuni ("The Land of Kami") magazine.
Taisho 10	1921	Jul. 12	Aug. 15	A ceremony was held to celebrate Onisaburo's 50th birthday.
Taisho 10	1921	Sep. 8	Oct. 8	The spirit of Foundress Nao ordered Onisaburo to disclose the truths about the spiritual world that had been revealed to him during his initiatory exploration on Mt. Takakuma.
Taisho 10	1921	Sep. 11	Oct. 11	The brand-new shrine on Mt. Hongu was ordered to be demolished.
Taisho 10	1921	Sep. 14	Oct. 14	Omoto changed its name from Kohdo ("Way of the Creator") Omoto to Omoto again.
Taisho 10	1921	Sep. 18	Oct. 18	At the earnest request of Nao's spirit, Onisaburo started the dictation of the Reikai Monogatari ("Tales of the Spiritual World"). ♣The scene of his dictation would remind the reader of the following passege from the Revelation: "And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps" (14: 1-2). "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters" (14: 6-7). ♣Another name for Reikai Monogatari is "The Book of the Final Judgment." Regarding the final judgment, Onisaburo has this to say: (Summary) The Christ promises to come back for the final judgment. By it, he means that he will baptize with fire. He desires to come back to perfect the baptism of fire that was thwarted halfway. The baptism of fire is to spiritually save humans. Many think that at the final judgment, an entity like the Lord of Hades would judge sinners, but this is not so. The truth is that the final judgment is to provide criteria by which to decide who will go to heaven or hell. Once the criteria are provided, individuals--of their own free will--choose to go to either heaven or hell, depending on the varying degrees of what they think and feel. The criteria are Reikai Monogatari per se. In this respect, the final judgment has already been under way since October, Taisho 10 (1921). Just as the Bible says, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come" (Mt. 24: 14), Reikai Monogatari has been preached to China and Korea in that order since Taisho 12 (1923) and is being preached to the rest of the world. ---"Reikai Monogatari is the Book of the Final Judgment" (Oct. Taisho 14 [1925]) from The Mizu Kagami ("Water Mirror") Analects---
Taisho 10	1921	Sep. 20	Oct. 20	The demolition of Omoto's shrine on Mt. Hongu started while Onisaburo was dictating the Reikai Monogatari. ♣As if in sync with the government destruction of the shrine (= the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place), what Onisaburo was dictating is a story on the destruction of the Kuni-toko-tachi Administration in Jerusalem and his subsequent incarceration in the Japanese Archipelago 350,000 years ago. ♣Ayabe, specifically Mt. Hongu, is a miniature model for Jerusalem.
Taisho 12	1923	---	May 1	An ad hoc committee was set up to compile the history of Omoto. On May 5, Taisho 13 (1924), it developed into the Council for the Compilation of the History of Omoto.
Taisho 12	1923	---	Jun. 28	The Esperanto Society of Omoto was formed. ♣The Esperanto name for Onisaburo is Onisavulo. Oni in Onisavulo means "people," sav means "to save" and ulo means "the one." Altogether, it stands for "the one who saves humanity" = the Saviour.
Taisho 12	1923	---	Sep. 1	The Great Tokyo Earthquake occurred. ♣This is the fulfillment of the next biblical passage: And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them (= the two prophets = Nao and Onisaburo), and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven" (Rev. 11: 11-13).
Taisho 12	1923	---	Nov. 4	Omoto forged ties with the Red Swastika Association, an affiliate of Dao Yuan.

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