This entry records that Tenrikyo, a Japanese new religious movement founded in the nineteenth century through Nakayama Miki, whom followers regard as having become a living shrine for divine revelation, centers its core devotional practice on the Otefuri, a set of hand movements and chanted verses performed to specific music, understood within Tenrikyo as a service of joyous gratitude and prayer for world renewal, without reproducing the specific liturgical content of that service here.
Tenrikyo scripture, including the Ofudesaki, the founder's own poetic writings regarded as the religion's primary scripture, and the Mikagura-uta, the sung text specifically used in the Otefuri service, remain published and available through the religion's own institutional structure, headquartered at Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in Tenri, Japan, a city whose name and urban development are directly shaped by the religion's presence there.
Followers regard Nakayama Miki's decades of teaching and personal example, including her practice of giving away her family's considerable wealth to the poor as an expression of complete reliance on divine providence, as itself a central model for how Tenrikyo understands sincere faith lived out in daily conduct rather than through doctrine alone.