What is "shinmeiaishinkai"

is a Japanese new religious movement founded by Komatsu Shin'yō in 1976. Komatsu was born in Yokohama in 1928; her mother was the successor to a hereditary line of kannushi ( Shinto priests). In 1976, an acquaintance of Komatsu's made a prophecy that a kami was about to descend to Earth. Shortly thereafter, Komatsu was visited in turn by a dragon god, Kannon and Amaterasu, the sun goddess. From that time forward, Komatsu dedicated herself to passing on knowledge from Amaterasu.