The 1867–1868 Japanese spirit-medium controversy surrounding Itō Jakuchū?

Record summary

Meiji government reforms generated disputes over miko, shrine mediums, possession rituals and unauthorized religious specialists. Police notices, prefectural regulations and ethnographic reports describe practices in which altered behavior and purported communication with deities were interpreted variously as religious devotion, fraud, illness or social disorder. This offers a concrete route into nineteenth-century Japanese debates about trance and authority. The lead should be narrowed to a named prefectural regulation or reported case, since “miko suppression” covers many local episodes with different dates and evidentiary value.