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Shintō Taikyō

The "Great Teaching of Shintō", the doctrinally generic Meiji sect that absorbed shrines and priests not fitting other denominations.

Definition

Originally founded in 1873 as the Taikyō-in, the central state Bureau of the Great Teaching used to indoctrinate citizens during the early Meiji religious settlement. When the Bureau was dissolved in 1875, its shrine-based remnant was renamed Shintō Honkyoku (1882) and finally Shintō Taikyō. It served as a generic denominational home for shrines that could not be classified under any of the more specific Thirteen Sects, with Amaterasu, Takamimusubi, and Kamimusubi as its central kami.

Etymology

Shintō + taikyō ("great teaching")