Uzuhiko Ashizu
Uzuhiko Ashizu is a person associated with the Department of Divinities reconstruction movement of Meiji Japan
After the Satsuma Rebellion, the Satsuma Domain and other Shizoku began to focus on the management of Shinto shrines dedicated to their Ujigami. And with that, the Priests emerged as the Freedom and People's Rights Movement.[1]
In June 1887, Shinto priests in Kyushu organized the Saikai Rengo-kai, which appealed to Shintoists throughout the country, arousing strong sympathy and emerging as a nationwide organized movement of Shinto priests .[2] On November 17, 1887, representatives from each prefecture met at the Imperial Classic Research Institute, and each committee member formed an association of priests, and the movement to revive the Shinto priests was launched nationwide.[3]
Also, in March 1890, rumors circulated in Shinto circles that Shinto was also included as a religion in order to restore it to its original state.[4]
In order to restore Shinto to its original state, at least the state structure must be changed, the Shinto priest must be restored, and the spirit and system of "Shinto is the ritual of the state" must be restored from this base. — Uzuhiko Ashizu, [5]
And behind the nationwide movement in the 1890s to revive the Shinto priesthood was a sense of "crisis" among Shinto priests and those involved in the Shinto religion against a government that was promoting a skeletonization of the "state's suzerainty" of Shinto shrines. When rumors of the religious ordinances began to circulate, a full-scale movement was launched to restore the Shinto priesthood by returning the teaching positions of the so-called "Minsha (民社) priests" below the rank of prefectures and shrines.[6]
This movement was somewhat successful, and on April 26, 1899, the Shrine Division, which was only a division of the Bureau of Shrines and Temples of the Ministry of Home Affairs, was upgraded to the Bureau of Shrines.[7] The Bureau of Religions also being split off to deal with other religions such as Sect Shinto.[8]
On June 13, 1913, the Bureau of Religions which was run under the Home Ministry, which had jurisdiction over religions other than Shinto shrines, was transferred to the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture.[9]
The debate was whether Shinto shrines are "non-religious" or "religious". In particular, if shrines were religious, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture has jurisdiction over it, and if they were secular the Home Ministry would have had jurisdiction over them.[10] Some have also arisen as a result of policies taken by the government to bring religious organizations under the rule of law.[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ 澤大洋. 士族選挙権論争と自由民権運動昂揚期の選挙制度論の進展 (PDF). 日本思想史学会. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ 葦津 2006, p. 98.
- ↑ 神社新報政教研究室 (1986-12-01). 増補新版 近代神社神道史 (in 日本語). 神社新報社. p. 99. Search this book on
- ↑ 神社新報政教研究室 (1986-12-01). 増補改訂 近代神社神道史 (in 日本語). 神社新報社. pp. 101–102. Search this book on
- ↑ Kokka shintō towa nandattanoka. Uzuhiko Ashizu, 珍彦 葦津. Tōkyō: Jinja Shinpōsha. 2006. ISBN 4-915265-10-2. OCLC 675442862. Search this book on
- ↑ 半田竜介 (2016). 丸山作楽の神祇官論について : 雑誌『隨在天神』に注目して (PDF). 明治聖徳記念学会紀要. 復刊第53号: 170–191.
- ↑ 國學院大学日本文化研究所 (1999-05-15). 縮刷版 神道事典 (in 日本語). 弘文堂. p. 20. ISBN 433516033X. Search this book on
- ↑ "Glossary of Shinto Names and Terms: S". www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
- ↑ 文化庁月報 平成25年9月号(No.540). 文化庁. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ↑ 神社新報政教研究室 (1986-12-01). 改定増補 近代神社神道史 (in 日本語). 神社新報社. pp. 187–190. Search this book on
- ↑ 葦津 2006, p. 123-125.
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