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Tanaka Chigaku | |
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田中智學 | |
![]() Tanaka Chigaku around 1890 | |
Born | Tada Tomonosuke December 14, 1861 |
Died | November 17, 1939 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 77)
Nationality | Japanese |
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Tanaka Chigaku (田中智學, December 14, 1861 – November 17, 1939) was a Japanese Buddhist scholar and preacher of Nichiren Buddhism, orator, writer and ultranationalist propagandist in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He is considered to be the father of Nichirenism, the fiercely ultranationalistic blend of Nichiren Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism espoused by such figures as Nissho Inoue, Kanji Ishiwara and Ikki Kita. Notably, however, the children's writer, poet, and rural activist Kenji Miyazawa also idolized Tanaka, and both Miyazawa and Ishiwara joined his flagship organization, the Kokuchūkai, in 1920.