Mika Odaira

Miyamoto Shigetane 宮本重胤 (1881–1959) was a Yamaguchi prefecture Shintō shrine priest who engaged in various activities for the edification of women, such as women’s education, during the Meiji period (1868–1912). He did so through two media forms: the women’s journal Joshidō and fortunes (omikuji 御籤). This article shows that his activities were prompted by Buddhists’ engagement in women’s education in his prefecture, as well as indirectly by Shimaji Mokurai’s 島地黙雷 (1838–1911) related views and activities. In addition, the article argues that Miyamoto’s undertakings were shaped by his attempts to re-establish shrines as religious places. These efforts reflect his resistance to limitations on shrines which arose out of a discourse that saw them as non-religious (jinja hishūkyōron 神社非宗教論). The case of Miyamoto therefore illustrates how the propagation and realization of women’s education in Shintō in Yamaguchi prefecture was closely related to similar developments in Buddhism. These activities, however, were not only for the edification of women, but simultaneously adopted a form that could be called “Shintō proselytizing.”

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