Nakayama Shinnosuke (中山 眞之亮, June 19, 1866 – December 31, 1914) was the first
Shinbashira The shinbashira (心柱, also 真柱 or 刹/擦 ''satsu'') refers to a central pillar at the core of a pagoda or similar structure. The shinbashira has long been thought to be the key to the Japanese pagoda's notable earthquake resistance, when ne ...
of
Tenrikyo. He was the grandson of
Nakayama Miki, the foundress of Tenrikyo.
Biography
According to Tenrikyo tradition,
Nakayama Miki named Shinnosuke and designated him the Shinbashira while he was still in the womb. He was born to parents Kajimoto Sojiro and Haru in the second year of the
Japanese era
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Keiō, on the seventh day of the fifth month, which corresponds to June 19, 1866 in the
Gregorian calendar
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. Shinnosuke was raised in the Kajimoto household in Ichinomoto Village until 1880, when Shinnosuke began to reside at the Nakayama household. Shinnosuke was officially adopted into the Nakayama family on September 23, 1881, and became the family's legal successor on September 22, 1882.
In 1896, Shinnosuke wrote the ''Oyasama gyoden'' ("The Biography of Oyasama"), the text on which Tenrikyo Church Headquarters' official biography of Nakayama Miki, ''
The Life of Oyasama'', would be based.
[''The Life of Oyasama, Foundress of Tenrikyo,'' Preface, note 2.]
Further reading
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*Ueda, Y. (1997). ''Kōhon Nakayama Shinnosuke den''
iography of Nakayama Shinnosuke, manuscript edition Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyō Dōyūsha.
References
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