{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "oomoto-shinyu-woh", "chapter": 1 }, "data": { "n": 1, "bookSlug": "oomoto-shinyu-woh", "bookCode": "OSHIN-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "Divine Revelations", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0-rc1","sourceText":"大本神諭 (Oomoto Shin'yu) — Deguchi Nao's ofudesaki automatic writing, Meiji 25 (1892) oracles (first fude, old-cal. 1st month, and old-cal. 5th month 5th day); reikaimonogatari.net (霊界物語ネット / Onido) e-text, de-furigana'd running text of witnesses os004 and os013.","sourceLicense":"Public Domain. Deguchi Nao (d. 1918) and Deguchi Onisaburō (d. 1948, editor/compiler of the printed Ōmoto Shin'yu) are both long out of Japanese copyright (life+70 and the pre-2018 life+50 regime). Machine-readable transcription served by reikaimonogatari.net. English translation original to the Wheel of Heaven Translation Program (CC0-1.0).","sourceUrl":"https://reikaimonogatari.net/index.php?obc=os004 ; https://reikaimonogatari.net/index.php?obc=os013","sourceAccessedVia":"reikaimonogatari.net (霊界物語ネット / Onido) Ōmoto Shin'yu e-text; see source-ja-1.json collationWitnesses","verificationStatus":"witness-confirmed-collation-partial-2026-07; first-pass draft. 38/93 verses matched the witness exactly after furigana-stripping; remainder differ by orthographic variants (e.g. 三ぜん/三千, 一同/一度). A single-edition philological pass is recommended before sign-off (see editorial_questions and source collationNotes).","glossaryVersion":"2.69.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.0.0","glossaryNote":"Central production glossary (v2.69.0) is Semitic-only and covers no Japanese lemmata. All Ōmoto-technical lexical decisions are governed by the per-book overlay _translation-glossary.json (v1.0.0, 16 entries: 5 direct convention/collation/theonym + soul/guardian/etc.). glossaryRefs[] now populated from the overlay. One proposed speculative entry — the interpretive identification of Ōmoto's banished-and-returning creator-kami with the Wheel of Heaven Elohim frame — is NOT committed; the surface text keeps 神 neutral ('the kami') and the resonance lives in comparative commentary only, escalated to the human reviewer per chapter-1-editor-report.md. Single-edition philological pass still pending (38/93 witness match).","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-8 (translator)"],"reviewer":"approved — all 93 verses defensible; kami/Elohim veto confirmed (neutral, zero leakage); glossary 16/16 (ad3377c3). 1:1 flag-for-human + single-edition pass pending.","reviewedAt":"2026-07-03","status":"reviewer-approved","editor":"claude-opus-4-8[1m] (editor)","humanRuling":"2026-07-03: standing lens-neutral ruling extended to Oomoto — 神/kami kept NEUTRAL (\"the kami\"), NO Elohim/Raëlian vocabulary in any line or note; kami-Elohim identification escalated as speculative, NOT committed (routed to wiki/article). 1:1 一同 kept per printed witness (\"all together\"), flagged — reviewer notes canonical reading is likely 一度 \"all at once\"; single-edition philological pass pending (38/93 exact match). から=China and 玉芝/Tamashiba noted for specialist confirmation. Not blockers for RC."}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "OSHIN-1:1", "text": "Throughout the three-thousand worlds, all together, the plum blossom opens; the age of Ushitora no Konjin has come to be." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "OSHIN-1:2", "text": "It opens with the plum and is governed with the pine; the age of the divine land has come to be." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "OSHIN-1:3", "text": "Japan is (the land of) Shintō, a land that cannot go on unless the kami attend to it." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "OSHIN-1:4", "text": "The foreign countries are a world of beasts, where the strong take all — lands of nothing but devils." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "OSHIN-1:5", "text": "Japan too has become a world of beasts." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "OSHIN-1:6", "text": "Deceived by foreigners, plucked bare down to the hairs of the backside, and yet still not awake — it has become a world of darkness." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "OSHIN-1:7", "text": "At this rate the country cannot stand, so the kami will appear openly and carry out the reconstruction and renewal of the three-thousand worlds." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "OSHIN-1:8", "text": "Make yourselves ready." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "OSHIN-1:9", "text": "This world will be changed entirely into a new world." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "OSHIN-1:10", "text": "Carrying out the great washing and great cleaning of the three-thousand worlds, and governing the world in great peace under heaven, (the kami) will make it an age of the divine land that endures through all ages to the last generation." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "OSHIN-1:11", "text": "What the kami has spoken will not err by a single bu or rin (not by the least measure)." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "OSHIN-1:12", "text": "There is not a mistake even the width of a single hair." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "OSHIN-1:13", "text": "If this should prove wrong, then the kami is not present in this world." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "OSHIN-1:14", "text": "\"In Tōkyō the design; distributing the divine pillars to the many lands — Suruga, Mino, Owari, Yamato, Tamashiba — Okayama\": Tenri, Konkō, Kurozumi, and Myōrei run on ahead as forerunners, and at the last Ushitora no Konjin appears to carry out the world's reconstruction." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "OSHIN-1:15", "text": "That there is to be a reconstruction of the world, every divine pillar knows; but how the reconstruction is to be accomplished, none of them understands." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "OSHIN-1:16", "text": "Up to nine parts nine rin it has been made known, but the crucial last one rin they do not understand." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "OSHIN-1:17", "text": "As for the three-thousand worlds, this is a kami to whom there is not one thing unknown; so when you grow forlorn, come out to the Ōmoto at Ayabe, and if you let (the kami) tell you, everything in the world will be seen at a single glance — (the kami) will bestow divine virtue upon you." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "OSHIN-1:18", "text": "When it comes to the upper (the kami / the high), it will not do for only the top to prosper in every corner; unless high and low are made equal, the world will not be governed." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "OSHIN-1:19", "text": "With Western dress (Western ways) it cannot be governed; making high and low equal and setting the people at ease, (the kami) will make an age of the divine land that will not collapse to the last generation." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "OSHIN-1:20", "text": "Make yourselves ready." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "OSHIN-1:21", "text": "A bird rises up from beneath your very feet." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "OSHIN-1:22", "text": "That is the nation-bird that is eyeing Japan." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "OSHIN-1:23", "text": "○○○[ — the kami is filled with chagrin." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "OSHIN-1:24", "text": "The people of Japan are nothing but blind and deaf; when the kami looks on, it is like a teacup set at the lip of a well — so perilous that the kami cannot bear to watch." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "OSHIN-1:25", "text": "You foreigners — soon Ushitora no Konjin will requite you in kind." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "OSHIN-1:26", "text": "The one that puts out leaves from its very roots is the saxifrage; unless both high and low bloom, this world will not be governed." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "OSHIN-1:27", "text": "A world where it will not do for only the top to prosper." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "OSHIN-1:28", "text": "Even if only the bottom prospers, this world will not be governed." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "OSHIN-1:29", "text": "Ten○○[ ○○○[ ○○○[ — (the kami) will return it to the origin, to the old days of long ago." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "OSHIN-1:30", "text": "With people wandering about in Western dress, the land of Japan cannot be governed." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "OSHIN-1:31", "text": "The opening of the National Assembly — however long the people labor at it, they cannot open it." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "OSHIN-1:32", "text": "Unless the kami opens it, it will not open." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "OSHIN-1:33", "text": "(The kami) will open it and show you." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "OSHIN-1:34", "text": "Tōkyō will return to its former field of pampas grass." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "OSHIN-1:35", "text": "It will not last forever." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "OSHIN-1:36", "text": "The eastern land — after one clear spell comes darkness." },{ "n": 37, "refId": "OSHIN-1:37", "text": "There is not one among the people who notices this." },{ "n": 38, "refId": "OSHIN-1:38", "text": "The kami is pressing in haste." },{ "n": 39, "refId": "OSHIN-1:39", "text": "Bringing the demons of this world to their end, raining down earthquake, thunder, and fire, ○○○[ because the world will not (otherwise) become the divine land — the time has come round for the kami's design from the great origin of old to be fulfilled, so though there be hardship, (the kami) will settle it all in short order." },{ "n": 40, "refId": "OSHIN-1:40", "text": "Let the guardian deities who understand — even but one — come out quickly to the Ōmoto and perform the service of the divine land." },{ "n": 41, "refId": "OSHIN-1:41", "text": "In return, if you serve it through to the end, your name will remain through all ages to the last generation, so the kami will render you splendid thanks." },{ "n": 42, "refId": "OSHIN-1:42", "text": "Because it concerns the whole world, however much wit and learning one has, it is a thing the people cannot understand." },{ "n": 43, "refId": "OSHIN-1:43", "text": "This design must not be understood too soon, yet it will not do to leave it un-understood, and because it is not understood, no change of heart can be made. It is the reconstruction of the world, a design that comes but once to the last generation; so unless you cast away all learning and wit entirely and turn back to the heart of a newborn babe, you cannot get your bearings — it is a difficult design." },{ "n": 44, "refId": "OSHIN-1:44", "text": "Unless you fling out entirely the rubbish that has lain in your belly until now, you will not even begin to grasp the true reality of this present time — it is a design of grand ambition." },{ "n": 45, "refId": "OSHIN-1:45", "text": "The white wisteria in the garden of the tutelary kami, and the plum and the cherry, were planted there as Deguchi Nao's garden-trees of thanksgiving." },{ "n": 46, "refId": "OSHIN-1:46", "text": "When the white wisteria flourishes, Ayabe will prosper and in the end be made the capital." },{ "n": 47, "refId": "OSHIN-1:47", "text": "Fukuchiyama and Maizuru are the outer enclosure." },{ "n": 48, "refId": "OSHIN-1:48", "text": "Ten ri in every direction is within the shrine precincts." },{ "n": 49, "refId": "OSHIN-1:49", "text": "Ayabe will become the center, and the world will be governed by the Golden-Wheel King." },{ "n": 50, "refId": "OSHIN-1:50", "text": "Ayabe is a splendid place — the sacred ground that the kami has hidden away since of old, the ground of the true design of the world's reconstruction." },{ "n": 51, "refId": "OSHIN-1:51", "text": "Throughout the lands and places of the world, many divine pillars who make known the world's reconstruction will appear." },{ "n": 52, "refId": "OSHIN-1:52", "text": "All is the design of Ushitora no Konjin, Kunitokotachi-no-Mikoto, and it has been made known to the world." },{ "n": 53, "refId": "OSHIN-1:53", "text": "When it has mostly spread abroad, the kami of every land and the guardian deities will be gathered to Ayabe and each assigned its service; for this is the noble root of the world, the origin of the world, the Takamagahara of the Dragon-Gate Hall — so whatever is undertaken without the sanction of the Ōmoto at Ayabe will, nine parts nine rin, be overturned." },{ "n": 54, "refId": "OSHIN-1:54", "text": "All is the kami's design; though people act thinking 'it is I, it is I,' in every case it is Ushitora no Konjin who is bewitching them and putting them to use." },{ "n": 55, "refId": "OSHIN-1:55", "text": "This kami is not the sort of kami that delights in taking the credit alone." },{ "n": 56, "refId": "OSHIN-1:56", "text": "If you are a guardian deity who understands the Ōmoto's design, then join hands one with another, for (the kami) will carry out the reconstruction and renewal of the world's foundation; so change the heart you have held until now, come to the Ōmoto, hear the crucial matter, and perform the service." },{ "n": 57, "refId": "OSHIN-1:57", "text": "To the kami of the three-thousand worlds, and to you guardian deities, (the kami) gives warning." },{ "n": 58, "refId": "OSHIN-1:58", "text": "The waters of the brooks of every valley too — in the end they become one in the great river: such is the design." },{ "n": 59, "refId": "OSHIN-1:59", "text": "Ayabe, the origin of the world, the dwelling place of the true kami." },{ "n": 60, "refId": "OSHIN-1:60", "text": "There will be a war between Kara (China) and Japan." },{ "n": 61, "refId": "OSHIN-1:61", "text": "This war is a war that will be won; the kami has laid the design from behind the scenes." },{ "n": 62, "refId": "OSHIN-1:62", "text": "The kami will appear openly and grant Japan the victory." },{ "n": 63, "refId": "OSHIN-1:63", "text": "Beginning with Russia, there will be one more war." },{ "n": 64, "refId": "OSHIN-1:64", "text": "After that comes the great war of the world; from here on it will gradually become clear." },{ "n": 65, "refId": "OSHIN-1:65", "text": "Japan is the divine land; rolling the world into one, it will be governed by a single king." },{ "n": 66, "refId": "OSHIN-1:66", "text": "Until it comes to that it will take no small effort, but it is a design more than three thousand years in the making; so once the guardians who stand over Japan begin even a little to understand, the kami will lend them strength, and all will be well." },{ "n": 67, "refId": "OSHIN-1:67", "text": "As for crossing the great pass of the world, unless the people act obediently as the kami says and endure whatever hardship, the affairs of the world will not be accomplished." },{ "n": 68, "refId": "OSHIN-1:68", "text": "The kami warns over and over." },{ "n": 69, "refId": "OSHIN-1:69", "text": "The spirit who can discern this matter will come forth from the east." },{ "n": 70, "refId": "OSHIN-1:70", "text": "When this personage appears, it will become wholly the guardianship of the sunrise, so it will become a divine age in which divine virtue shines and radiates throughout the whole world." },{ "n": 71, "refId": "OSHIN-1:71", "text": "The commander, at the Dragon-Gate Hall of the Takamagahara at Ayabe, ○○[ — it is indeed a great undertaking, but because it is the design of the living kami from of old, there is nothing amiss." },{ "n": 72, "refId": "OSHIN-1:72", "text": "Even once the fighting has been quelled, the strife that follows will not readily be settled." },{ "n": 73, "refId": "OSHIN-1:73", "text": "The kami will appear openly and hold a contest of strength between the kami and (worldly) learning." },{ "n": 74, "refId": "OSHIN-1:74", "text": "The age of learning is already over." },{ "n": 75, "refId": "OSHIN-1:75", "text": "Against the kami none can prevail." },{ "n": 76, "refId": "OSHIN-1:76", "text": "Selecting out the crystal souls, (the kami) will carry out the sifting of souls." },{ "n": 77, "refId": "OSHIN-1:77", "text": "It has become a world at its last extremity, with no way out." },{ "n": 78, "refId": "OSHIN-1:78", "text": "You people of the world, make a change of heart." },{ "n": 79, "refId": "OSHIN-1:79", "text": "The world will change." },{ "n": 80, "refId": "OSHIN-1:80", "text": "Things will come to pass that will astonish you." },{ "n": 81, "refId": "OSHIN-1:81", "text": "According as you change your heart, (the kami) will save you." },{ "n": 82, "refId": "OSHIN-1:82", "text": "Those strong in doubt (the kami) will chastise severely." },{ "n": 83, "refId": "OSHIN-1:83", "text": "What the kami says will not fail." },{ "n": 84, "refId": "OSHIN-1:84", "text": "The outward surface can change even today." },{ "n": 85, "refId": "OSHIN-1:85", "text": "The soul does not change so readily." },{ "n": 86, "refId": "OSHIN-1:86", "text": "Polish your heart and soul and make a change of heart." },{ "n": 87, "refId": "OSHIN-1:87", "text": "A bird rises up from beneath your feet." },{ "n": 88, "refId": "OSHIN-1:88", "text": "Do not imagine that the tips can go on when the root is cut." },{ "n": 89, "refId": "OSHIN-1:89", "text": "It is only because there is a trunk that there are branches, and tips as well." },{ "n": 90, "refId": "OSHIN-1:90", "text": "When the root is cut, the tips wither." },{ "n": 91, "refId": "OSHIN-1:91", "text": "Because so grand and ambitious a mediumship has been laid upon her, it is truly a grievous thing for Nao." },{ "n": 92, "refId": "OSHIN-1:92", "text": "Because it concerns the whole world, clarity is slow to come, and Nao's mortification and regret are as hot iron pressed to her breast; not one soul understands now, nor is there any to lend her strength and help — yet even so, because the design has been laid over the world, little by little it will come to be understood." },{ "n": 93, "refId": "OSHIN-1:93", "text": "There is no mistake." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/oomoto-shinyu-woh/chapters/1", "book": "/v1/library/books/oomoto-shinyu-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/oomoto-shinyu-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }