'Accomplishment of the Way of the Kami'. A religious group founded by Hirayama, Seisai or Shosai (1815—1890), a high-ranking member of the last Tokugawa government. He arrived in Edo at the age of twenty and studied Chinese and kokugaku. After the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 he turned to ascetic religious practices including standing under a cold waterfall. Shinto taisei-kyo advocated service to the nation and conduct pleasing to the kami, and was recognised as a Shinto sect in 1882.
See Kyoha Shinto.
A Popular Dictionary of Shinto. Brian Bocking.