Tenrin-Ō Meisei Kyōdan (天輪王明誠教団) is a Shinto-based Shinshūkyō (Japanese new religion) founded in 1881.
[1] Oku's affiliated organization called Shidōkai (斯道会), which is not related to today's Tenrikyo-based new religion of the same name that was founded by Ibaraki Mototaka (茨木基敬).
[2] Early Tenrikyo missionaries in the Kyoto region and its vicinities such as Tatekawa Wasuke (立川和助) and Yamanoto Genshichi (山本源七) were active[3] due to the relative proximity from the founding place of Tenrikyo to the particular missionary areas in the early Meiji era.
[5] Oku received the name of his confraternity in Kyoto from the Tenrikyo foundress, Nakayama Miki, as Meisei (明聖).
[6] The name coined by the foundress symbolized the core Tenrikyo theology of the underlying natural causality as shown via the moon and the sun (月日, Tsukihi).