{{Short description|Shinto organization}} {{Infobox organization | name = Great Teaching Institute | formation = [[1872]] | native_name = 大教院 | native_name_lang = ja | predecessor = [[Department of Divinities]] | successor = [[Bureau of Shinto Affairs]] | dissolved = [[1875]] | parent_organization = [[Ministry of Religion (Japan)|Ministry of Religion]] }}
The {{Nihongo|'''Taikyo Institute'''|大教院|Taikyōin or Daikyōin|Lit. "Great Doctrine Institute"}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Encyclopedia of Shinto詳細 |url=https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=8848 |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=國學院大學デジタルミュージアム |language=ja}}</ref> was an organization under the [[Ministry of Religion (Japan)|Ministry of Religion]] in the [[Empire of Japan]].<ref name="教派神道とは-2022a">{{Cite web |title=教派神道とは – 神道大教 |url=https://shintotaikyo.org/%e7%a5%9e%e9%81%93%e5%a4%a7%e6%95%99%e3%81%ae%e7%b4%b9%e4%bb%8b/%e7%a5%9e%e9%81%93%e5%a4%a7%e6%95%99%e3%81%a8%e3%81%af/ |access-date=2022-06-26 |language=ja}}</ref>
== History == It was founded in 1872<ref name="仏教辞典2版">{{Cite book |last=中村元ほか編 |title=岩波仏教辞典 |publisher=岩波書店 |year=2002 |isbn=978-4000802055 |edition=第二版 |pages=220–222}}</ref> to train [[Kyodo Shoku|''kyōdo shōku'']] or religious teachers because the [[Missionary Office]] and [[Department of Divinities]] were unsuccessful in their national indoctrination objectives.<ref>Yoshio Yasumaru, Masato Miyaji, eds. Nihon modern thought compendium 5 Religion and the State, p. 431</ref> It was intended as a joint [[Shinto]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] organization, but ended up becoming entirely dominated by [[Shinto]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
{{Nihongo|2=中教院|3=Chūkyōin|4="Middle Doctrine Academies"}} were established in each prefectural capital and {{Nihongo|2=小教院|3=Shōkyoin|4="Minor Doctrine Academies"}} were established in various cities.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Berthon |first=Jean-Pierre |date=April 1995 |title=Helen Hardacre, Shinto and the State, 1868-1988, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, « Studies in Church and State », 1989, XVI-203 p. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0395264900054135 |journal=Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=448–450 |doi=10.1017/s0395264900054135 |s2cid=165716719 |issn=0395-2649|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
On January 1, 1875, an arson attack on the Taikyo Institute caused confusion, with four [[Jōdo Shinshū]] sects informally announcing their departure from the Great Teaching Institute.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Masamichi Ogahara |title=Study of Daikyoin : Development and Failure of Religious Administration in the Early Meiji Period |date=August 2004 |publisher=Keio University Press |isbn=4766410904 |pages=Appendix: chronology |language=ja}}</ref>
On May 3, 1875, the Taikyo Institute was dissolved by the [[Ministry of Religion (Japan)|Ministry of Religion]]<ref name="Kawamura 2017">{{Cite book |last=Kawamura Tadanobu |title=Legal Studies of Modern Shinto |date=March 2017 |publisher=Kobundo |language=ja |chapter=Part 1: State Sovereignty and Recognized Shrines Chapter 1: "State Sovereignty" in Shrine Administration}}</ref> and replaced with the [[Bureau of Shinto Affairs]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=藤井貞文 |date=1977-03-01 |publisher=吉川弘文館 |pages=1–750 |language=ja |script-title=ja:明治国学発生史の研究}}</ref> and later [[Shintō Taikyō]].<ref name="教派神道とは-2022a" />
[[Ame-no-Minakanushi]] was one of its patron deities, also known under the Buddhist name [[Myōken]].<ref name="Amenominakanushi">{{cite web |last1=Mori |first1=Mizue |title=Amenominakanushi |url=http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=38 |access-date=2020-11-07 |website=Encyclopedia of Shinto |publisher=Kokugakuin University}}</ref> == See also ==
* [[Bureau of Shinto Affairs]] * [[Shintō Taikyō]] * [[Kyodo Shoku]] * [[Sect Shinto]] * {{ill|Toyama Chukyoin|ja|富山中教院|simple}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite book |last=井上順孝ほか編 |date=January 1996 |publisher=弘文堂 |isbn=978-4335160288 |script-title=ja:新宗教教団・人物事典}} * {{Cite book |last=井上 |first=順孝 |date=April 1991 |publisher=弘文堂 |isbn=978-4335160219 |script-title=ja:教派神道の形成 |author-link=井上順孝}} * {{Cite book |last=葦津珍彦 |date=2006-11-01 |publisher=神社新報社 |isbn=9784915265105 |language=ja |script-title=ja:新版 国家神道とは何だったのか |ref={{harvid|葦津|2006}}}} * * {{Cite book |last=村上 |first=重良 |date=April 1974 |publisher=岩波書店 |isbn=978-4004121565 |series=岩波新書 |script-title=ja:慰霊と招魂-靖国の思想}} * {{Cite book |last=村上 |first=重良 |date=August 2007 |publisher=講談社 |isbn=978-4061598324 |series=講談社学術文庫 |script-title=ja:天皇制国家と宗教 |author-link=村上重良}} * {{Cite book |last=菅田 |first=正昭 |publisher=たま出版 |year=1985 |isbn=4884811321 |script-title=ja:古神道は甦る |author-link=菅田正昭}}（文庫：1994年.ISBN 4886924603.）「教派神道に流れる古神道の本質」の章あり.
== External links == * [http://www.shinto-taikyo.org/link/link.htm Shinto Taikyo (sect of Shinto)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027001049/http://www.shinto-taikyo.org/link/link.htm |date=2020-10-27 }}
{{Sect Shinto}} {{State Shinto}}
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