{{Short description|Former Japanese government organization}}
{{Infobox organization | formation = [[1869]] | predecessor = [[Department of Divinities]] | successor = [[Ministry of Religion (Japan)|Ministry of Religion]] | dissolved = [[1872]] | parent_organization = [[Ministry of Divinities]] }} The {{Nihongo|'''Missionary Office'''|宣教使|senkyōshi}}<ref name="teeuwen-2017a">{{Cite journal |last1=Teeuwen |first1=Mark |last2=Zhong |first2=Yijiang |date=2017 |title=Izumo, Ise, and Modern Shinto |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90017702 |journal=Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=325–332 |doi=10.18874/jjrs.44.2.2017.325-332 |jstor=90017702 |issn=0304-1042|hdl=10852/65297 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> was one of the government offices in Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912).<ref>{{Cite web |last=小項目事典,世界大百科事典内言及 |first=日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ),精選版 日本国語大辞典,デジタル大辞泉,ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 |title=宣教使とは |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AE%A3%E6%95%99%E4%BD%BF-88095 |access-date=2022-06-26 |website=コトバンク |language=ja}}</ref>
The mission was found to be too socially divisive and the office was abolished in 1872 and replaced with the [[Ministry of Religion (Japan)|Ministry of Religion]], which was presented as neutral between Shinto and Buddhism.<ref name="teeuwen-2017a" />
== See also == * [[Kyodo Shoku]] * [[Taikyo Institute]] * [[Taikyo Proclamation]]
== References == <references /> [[Category:1872 disestablishments]] [[Category:Government agencies established in 1869]] [[Category:State Shinto]] [[Category:Defunct government agencies of Japan]] [[Category:Pages with unreviewed translations]] {{State Shinto}}