robe, as well as hunger and thirst, Onisaburo received divine revelations and claimed to have traveled into the spirit world.

Onisaburo met the founder of Omotokyo in 1898 and in 1899 they established the Kinmeikai, later called Kinmei Reigakkai. In 1900, Kisaburo married Nao's fifth daughter Sumi (also known as Sumiko) and adopted the name Deguchi Onisaburo. Oomoto teaches that the guardian spirit of Nao is Amaterasu, described as a