Interpretation and reception
Nao Deguchi: A Biography of the Foundress of Oomoto
Based on Sakae Ōishi’s Kaiso-den; translated and supplemented by Charles Rowe and Yasuko Matsudaira
Describes the recording of Nao’s revelations and presents the opening expectation of purification and a reconstructed world of peace.
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Edition and location
The Oomoto Foundation, Kameoka, 1982; adapted English Kaiso-den with additional research. Japanese and English versions are conservatively one work identity.
Translators’ Note; The Beginning of the Scriptures; Content of the Ofudesaki