DAIKYOIN

   The 'Great Teaching Institute'. A Meiji government agency founded shortly after the restoration to spread the daikyo or taikyo 'Great Teaching' through the 'Great Promulgation Campaign' (Taikyo senpu undo). Although the institute was headed by Shinto administrators, was avowedly anti-Christian and accepted Buddhists only if they were prepared to teach and perform rites in a Shinto idiom, the institute was not at the time identified as Shinto but was conceived of as a trans-denominational institution, the basis of a state religion.