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Ibaragi Ippa (Japanese: 茨木一派) was a Tenrikyo-based sectarian movement that did not develop into a separate shinshūkyō (Japanese new religion), but currently existing as a clandestine religious movement on the internet. It means the sect (一派, ippa)[n 1] of Ibaragi Mototaka (茨木基敬), a Japanese religious figure.

Early history

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Ibaragi Mototaka was born on 3 October 1855 in today's Kita-ku, Osaka.[2][3] Ibaragi eventually became a Tenrikyo follower under the spiritual guidance of Izumita Tokichi (泉田籐吉) and later founded Kita Grand Church in Ikuno-ku, Osaka.[4] As an active regional leader for the proselytization of Tenrikyo beliefs, he eventually became an active official working within Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. Among the officials, Ibaragi was noticeable for being the sole critic of Taishō Construction, the project to build the Hokurēhaijō (北礼拝場, North Worship Hall) during the Taishō era, due to potential financial constraints experienced by the followers.[5][6] This became one the pretexts for the dissonance between Ibaragi and the rest of the officials.

Ibaragi was known for experiencing kamigakari (神がかり), a condition of a human being possessed by a kami, on the night of 18 November 1911.[7][8] However, his spiritual experience was not approved by the rest of the Tenrikyo officials. This is despite Ibaragi suggested his followers not to organize a schism.[9] However, the riff between the two parties failed to achieve any peace. He and his son, Ibaragi Mototada (茨木基忠)[n 2], was expelled from the Tenrikyo religious establishment on 16 January 1918, calling this event the Ibaragi Incident (茨木事件).[10][11][12][13]

Ibaragi Mototaka passed away on 29 October 1929.[14]

Legacy

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Ibaragi Mototaka's history with the Tenrikyo organization became a landmark event among Tenrikyo historians. He is viewed today as a renegade figure who did not advocate to organize a rival religious organization that could potentially antogonize the Tenrikyo establishment, an opposite to Ōnishi Aijirō, with the foundation of Honmichi, and Iida Iwajirō (飯田岩治郎), with the foundation of Daidōkyō (大道教).[12][15]

Ibaragi Mototaka's religious movement still exists today mainly in a form of online activities under a leader with the title, o-kikai-sama (お機械さま)[n 3], as the semantic element, kikai (機械), means machine or mechanism, a word that Ibaragi had fond of; also being active with the name, Shindōkai (真道会)[n 4], that is not an officially registered religious organization in Japan.[9][18]

Notes

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  1. ^ It is an allusion to the sectarian independence movement of Tenrikyo during the late Meiji era.[1]
  2. ^ Ibaragi Mototada was the head of the Kita Grand Church at that time.[10]
  3. ^ A Japanese blogger, Kumappī (クマッピー),[16] is a known follower of Ibaragi Mototaka's religious doctrine and is potentially a current leader of Ibaragi Ippa.
  4. ^ A book written by the Japanese religious studies scholar, Yumiyama Tatsuya, suggested that Ibaragi Ippa is also active with the name, Shindōkai.[17]

Further reading

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  • Forbes, Roy Tetsuo (2005). Schism, orthodoxy and heresy in the history of Tenrikyō : three case studies (Thesis). University of Hawai'i Department of Religion.
  • Matsui (松井), Keisuke (圭介) (March 2000). "カリスマの継承からみた天理教系教団の分派形成 : 場所の宗教と天啓者の宗教" [Formation of New Sects from Tenri-kyo Focusing on the Succession to Charismas: Religion of Place and Religion of Revelator] (PDF). Tsukuba Studies in Human Geography (筑波大学人文地理学研究) (in Japanese). 25. Tsukuba: 55–76.
  • Murayama (村山), Motomasa (元理) (2024-09-15). 天理教の天啓継承問題の探究－教祖存命の理と茨木事件の再考－ [Studying of the Problems on Succeeding the Divine Revelation (Tenkei) in Tenrikyo : Rethinking Kyōso Sonmei no Ri and Ibaragi Incident] (Thesis) (in Japanese). Japanese Association for Religious Studies. Archived from the original on 2025-05-29.
  • "天理教 各教会の歴史探索（第25回）【麹町大教会】『天理教事典』より" [Searching for the History of Each Tenrikyo Church (#25) [Kojimachi Grand Church] from the "Tenrikyo Dictionary"]. Samayoi Blog (さまよいブログ) [a blog run by an unknown Tenrikyo church leader] (in Japanese). 2024-10-12.
  • "天理教人名辞典　茨木基敬　いばらぎもとよし" [Dictionary of Tenrikyo People, Ibaragi Motoyoshi]. Yorokobi Isande (in Japanese). 2022-08-03.

References

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  1. ^ Kato, Masato (2025-02-22). "From Shinto Sect to Religion: The De-Shintoization of Tenrikyo". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 50 (2): 205–220. doi:10.18874/jjrs.50.2.2023.205-220. In response to public scrutiny and criticism, the leaders of Tenri Kyōkai began a movement for sectarian independence (ippa dokuritsu undō 一派独立運動) in 1899…
  2. ^ Samayoi Blog "安政2年(1855)10月3日、大阪西成郡北野村松本佐兵衛の次男信次郎（入信後 基敬と改める）として出生。" [Shinjirō (later renamed to Mototaka after his conversion to Tenrikyo), the second son of Matsumoto Sahē from Nishinari-gun Kitano-mura (today's central part of Kita-ku, Osaka) in Osaka, was born on 3 October 1855.]
  3. ^ Yorokobi Isande "…大阪の西成郡北野村の松本佐兵衛の二男として生まれる。" [… he was born as the second son of Matsumoto Sahē from Nishinari-gun Kitano-mura (today's central part of Kita-ku, Osaka) in Osaka.]
  4. ^ Soda (早田), Ichiro (一郎) (February 2012). "教祖ご在世時代" [The Active Era of Nakayama Miki] (PDF). Tenri University (in Japanese). Tenri, Nara: Tenrikyo Literature Section of Tenri Library in Tenri University. 泉田籐吉のおたすけで入信した人に小松駒吉（御津大教会）、茨木基敬（北大教会）、中西金次郎（大江大教会）、寺田半兵衛（網島分教会）らがいる。 [Komatsu Komakichi (Mitsu Grand Church), Ibaragi Motoyoshi (Kita Grand Church), Nakanishi Kinjirō (Ōe Grand Church), Terada Hanbē (Amijima Branch Church), etc. were the adherents who received mentorship from Izumita Tokichi.]
  5. ^ Forbes, Roy Tetsuo (page 130) "While Tenrikyo considers the promise as being tied to purchasing lumber for a construction project (the building of the current North Worship Hall that is now known as the 'Taisho construction'), …"
  6. ^ Forbes, Roy Tetsuo (page 139) "Ibaragi was said to have been critical of the Taisho construction, the sole honbu-in to voice such an opinion, insisting that it would place an unnecessary financial burden on the Tenrikyo membership."
  7. ^ "Kamigakari". Oxford Reference. A state of trance in which a spiritual being (kami) possesses (kakaru) the human body by entering and speaking through it. Kamigakari may be experienced spontaneously or induced through ...
  8. ^ Forbes, Roy Tetsuo (page 139) "Ibaragi is said to have had his first kamigakari on the night of November 18, 1911."
  9. ^ a b Forbes, Roy Tetsuo (page 141) 103 While Ibaragi urged his followers to avoid forming a rival religious movement to Tenrikyo, his charismatic successors (called okikai-sama お機械さま) have survived and their version of the Tenrikyo teachings has gained a limited presence on the Internet.
  10. ^ a b Murayama, Motomasa "茨木事件とは大正7年に本部員の茨木基敬氏と天理教北大教会長の茨木基忠氏の茨木父子が免職となった事件である。" [The Ibaragi Incident occured when the central leadership officer, Ibaragi Mototaka, and the head of Kita Grand Church, the son Ibaragi Mototada, were relieved from their duties in 1918.]
  11. ^ Forbes, Roy Tetsuo (page 140) "… the decision was made at a meeting of leading honbu-in to expel Ibaragi Motoyoshi together with his son Mototada, the head minister of Kita Daikyokai, on January 16, 1918."
  12. ^ a b Matsui, Keisuke (page 71) "茨木基敬による茨木事件など異端が相次いだが，これらの異端活動の中で最大の影響を与えたのが大西によるほんみちの開教である。" [Attempts of heterodox splinter sects such as the one led by Ibaragi Motoyoshi, the main figure of the Ibaragi Incident, existed; among the sects at that time, the most influential one (to the future sects) is Honmichi that was started by Ōnishi Aijirō.]
  13. ^ Matsui, Keisuke (page 75) "23) 1918(大正7)年1月16日,天理教教団本部の中枢にいた茨木基敬が,自分に天啓が下るとし,神意を伝えはじめた事件を指す。" [23) This incident (of explusion) happened on 16 January 1918 when the central figure within the Tenrikyo's headquarters, Ibaragi Mototaka, previously received a divine revelation (tenkei) and propagated his interpretation of the divine message.]
  14. ^ Yorokobi Isande "昭和4年（1929）10月29日に出直した。享年75歳。" [(Ibaragi Motoyoshi) "passed away for rebirth" on 29 October 1929. Age 75.]
  15. ^ Samayoi Blog "この事件は、本部准員飯田岩治郎のおこした異説安堵事件と共に、教会本部の中枢にいる者の唱えた異説として当時の天理教内に 大きな衝撃を与えた。" [The (Ibaragi) Incident, along with revisionism-motivated Ando Incident perpetuated by the associated member Iida Iwajirō, gave a huge shock within the Tenrikyo establishment at that time as they proposed different doctrinal perspectives.]
  16. ^ "クマッピーさんのプロフィールページ" [Kumappī's Profile Page]. ameba.jp (in Japanese).
  17. ^ "天理教直系教団" [Tenrikyo-derived Religious Groups]. Asahi Jinja (in Japanese). Miki, Hyōgo. 真道会／（奈良市）／明治四十四年／茨木基敬/神がかり／…（引用：天啓のゆくえ／弓山達也著・日本地域社会研究所） [Shindōkai / (Nara City) / 1911 / Ibaragi Mototaka / Kamigakari / … (Quoting: Course of Tenkei / by Yumiyama Tatsuya from Japan Institute for Community Affair)]
  18. ^ Murayama, Motomasa "機械という言葉が、茨木氏の言葉で頻出するが、これは天啓者を意味する。" [The term, kikai, was often uttered by Ibaragi (Mototaka), it denotes a divine revelator (tenkeisha).]
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