Deguchi Onisaburo’s 1898 spiritual training and Oomoto visions

Record summary

Ueda Kisaburo, later Deguchi Onisaburo, became associated with Oomoto after meeting Deguchi Nao and undertaking visionary or ascetic practices in the late 1890s. Oomoto biographies connect his experiences, including spiritual training and encounters with divine or cosmic beings, to his later role as organizer, ritual innovator and prolific religious author. The material matters for comparing visionary initiation with institutional expansion and mythic autobiography. Dates and narrative details differ among Oomoto publications, police records and modern scholarship, and some accounts were shaped by later movement needs.