The () is a Tenrikyo religious text. The text consists of 160 "waka" poems about the Tenrikyo creation myth promulgated by Nakayama Miki, the founder of the Tenrikyo religion. It was compiled in 1881 by Yamazawa Ryōsuke (山沢良助; also known as Ryōjirō), one of Nakayama Miki's close followers, and is also known as the ().
Like the "Ofudesaki" and "Mikagura-uta", the "Doroumi Kōki" is mostly written using hiragana rather than kanji.
Canonical status.
The "Doroumi Kōki" is the best known and most widely used Tenrikyo "kōki" (古記); there are also various other "kōki" texts that were composed from 1881 up until Nakayama Miki's death in 1887, including Nakayama Shinnosuke's 1881 "kōki" and Kita (喜多)'s 1881 "kōki". None of the "kōki" texts are part of the three basic scriptures ("sangenten" 三原典) of Tenrikyo, which consist of the "Ofudesaki" ("The Tip of the Writing Brush"), the "Mikagura-uta" ("The Songs for the Service"), and the "Osashizu" ("Divine Directions"). As a result, today it is rarely read by Tenrikyo followers. However, in Honmichi, a Tenrikyo splinter religion, the "Doroumi Kōki" is used as a canonical scripture. Honbushin, which split from Honmichi in 1961, uses the "Doroumi Kōki" in supporting its claim that its founder was the reincarnation of Nakayama Miki.
History.
During the 1880s, Nakayama Miki asked some of her followers to write down her teachings. Various poetry texts were composed by her followers, but Nakayama Miki did not end up approving any of them as official scriptures. The "Doroumi Kōki", composed by Yamazawa Ryōsuke (山沢良助), was among those texts.
Since the "Doroumi Kōki"'s creation myth conflicted with that of the official State Shinto version promulgated by the government, copies of the text were collected and burned, as the text implicitly challenged the emperor's divinity. The text was never given official status by the Tenrikyo Church Headquarters after World War II, and it remains obscure and relatively unknown today.
Outline.
Outline of the "Doroumi Kōki":
Birth of Tamahime.
Verses in the "Doroumi Kōki" (泥海古記) were also consulted by Ōnishi Aijirō, the founder of the Honmichi religion, to prophesize the reincarnations of Nakayama Miki and her family members, as explained in Forbes (2005):
The original text of "Doroumi Kōki" verse 30 is:
ことしから三十年たちたなら / "kotoshi kara sanjū nen tachita nara"
はたまひめのもとのやしきへ / "na wa tama hime no moto no yashiki e"
With additional kanji, it can be written as:
今年から三十年経ちたなら
名は玉姫の元の屋敷へ
As listed in Fukaya (1983: 3), the "innen" () of the souls of various individuals in the "Doroumi Kōki" are as follows:
Directions.
In the "Doroumi Kōki", the east is associated with three female kami, while the west is associated with three male kami. Unusually for a Tenrikyo text, the equivalent deities in Japanese Buddhism are also given. Note that the rōmaji transliterations below are from the "Doroumi Kōki", which are sometimes not the same as the standard Japanese pronunciations.
Modern versions and reprintings.
After World War II, content from the "Doroumi Kōki" was summarized and synthesized in Tenrikyo books about the creation such as (English edition: "The Truth of Origin") and (English edition: "Insights into the Story of Creation"). However, the books do not explicitly mention or cite the "Doroumi Kōki", but rather the "Ofudesaki".
The "Doroumi Kōki" is not widely circulated today and has only been occasionally reprinted after World War II. The text (with 161 verses instead of the usual 160 published in other sources) has been reproduced with kanji glosses in a 1957 study of the "kōki" by Nakayama Shōzen and in an appendix in Murakami (1974). A reprint of a 1946 commentary on the "Doroumi Kōki" by Matsumura Kichitarō (松村吉太郎) was also published in 2016.