Kurozumikyo’s Munetada revelation and solar devotion

Record summary

Kurozumi Munetada, a Shinto-derived religious founder, is said to have experienced a decisive revelation in 1812 after severe illness and the deaths of close family members. Kurozumikyo accounts associate his recovery and religious mission with Amaterasu, solar worship and an expanded doctrine of divine-human communion. Although the episode falls just before the requested nineteenth-century period, its teachings and institutional development belong to nineteenth-century Japan and make a useful comparison with Tenrikyo and Konkokyo. The narrative is primarily transmitted through religious biographies and later doctrinal texts.