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Nakayama Shōzen
Image from The Short History of Tenrikyo by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters
Born23 April 1905
Tenri, Japan
Died14 November 1967
Tenri, Japan

Nakayama Shōzen (中山 正善, April 23, 1905 – November 14, 1967) was the second Shinbashira of Tenrikyo. He was the first son of Nakayama Shinnosuke, the first Shinbashira, and the great-grandson of Nakayama Miki, the foundress of Tenrikyo.

Biography

Nakayama Shōzen was born on April 23, 1905 in what is now Tenri, Nara, Japan. He was born to parents Nakayama Shinnosuke and Tamae.

On January 21, 1915, at the age of ten, Shōzen was installed as the Shinbashira. However, due to Nakayama's young age, the duties of the office were conducted by Yamazawa Tamenobu. In 1923, Shōzen entered Osaka High School. In 1925, he founded the Tenri Foreign Language School, the predecessor to Tenri University, and installed as its principal. Later in the same year, he assumed all of the responsibilities of the Shinbashira office.[1]

In 1926, Shōzen graduated from Osaka High School and entered the religious studies department at University of Tokyo. The department chair at the time was Prof. Anesaki Masaharu, who today is considered the father of religious studies in Japan.[2] Shōzen's graduation thesis, titled "On Missionary Work" (伝道について Dendō ni tsuite), was an analysis of questionnaire results that were solicited from Tenrikyo church head ministers and missionaries regarding the state of Tenrikyo's missionary activities at the time. His thesis was later edited and published by Tenrikyo Doyusha as Tenrikyō dendōsha ni kansuru chōsa in 1930.[3] He graduated from University of Tokyo in 1929.[4]

Selected writings

  • 『神』『月日』及び『をや』について [Concerning "Kami," "Tsukihi," and "Oya"] (1935)
  • おふでさきに現れた親心 [Parental Heart Revealed in the Ofudesaki] (1955)

References

  1. ^ Sugai, H. (2013) Academic and Cultural Exchanges between Tenri University and Marburg University: Retrospect and Prospect. Purification: Religious Transformations of Body and Mind. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. p. 3.
  2. ^ Purification: Religious Transformations of Body and Mind, 4.
  3. ^ Shimada, K. (2014). The Emergence and Development of Tenrikyo Theology: On the Significance of Sciences of Religion as Mediums. Tenri Journal of Religion, 42. Tenri, Japan. p. 113.
  4. ^ Purification: Religious Transformations of Body and Mind, 4.

Further reading

  • Oyasato Institute for the Study of Religion, ed. (2018). "Nakayama Shōzen". Kaitei Tenrikyō jiten (3rd ed.). Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyō Dōyūsha. pp. 725–7. ISBN 978-4-903058-96-2. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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