Kurozumikyo and the solar revelation of Kurozumi Munetada

Record summary

Kurozumi Munetada, a Shinto priest, reported a life-changing solar revelation in 1814 after illness and bereavement, leading to a healing and devotional movement later known as Kurozumikyo. Its teachings emphasized Amaterasu, purification, gratitude, and the possibility of spiritual transformation in ordinary life. The movement is useful for comparing early nineteenth-century Japanese religious innovation with Tenrikyo and Konkokyo. Accounts of Munetada’s experience come primarily through religious biographies and later institutional records, so chronology and wording require source criticism.