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Usui was born on 15 August 1865 [7] in the village of Taniai (now called Miyama cho) in the Yamagata district of the Gifu Prefecture, Japan, which is now located near present-day Nagoya. [8] Usui's father's common name was Uzaemon, [9] and his mother was from the Kawai family. [9] His brothers, Sanya and Kuniji, became a doctor and a policeman ...
Chujiro Hayashi (林 忠次郎, Hayashi Chūjirō, 15 September 1880 – 11 May 1940), a disciple of Mikao Usui, played a major role in the transmission of Reiki out of Japan. Hayashi was a naval physician and employed Reiki to treat his patients. He began studying with Usui in the early 1920s.
Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. [1] According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama , Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.
Hayashi had learned from Mikao Usui, the first teacher of Reiki, in the early 1900s. [2] Identification of training lineage is common among Reiki practitioners. Within the tradition, Takata is sometimes known as Reiki Grand Master Teacher Hawayo Takata. Takata lied about Reiki's history of development to make Reiki more appealing to the West. [3]
The mountain is also known as the birthplace of the holistic healing art called Reiki.In 1922 the founder of Reiki, Mikao Usui, meditated for 21 days on this mountain and received the Reiki healing energy and was said to have become an enlightened person and to have gained true insight into the wisdom of life.
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March 9 – Mikao Usui, founder of Reiki (b. 1865) April 7 Ozaki Hōsai, poet (b. 1885) Hozumi Nobushige, statesman and jurist (b. 1855) April 28 – Kawamura Kageaki, field marshal (b. 1850) June 28 – Hirai Seijirō, railroad engineer (b. 1856) July 4 – Ushinosuke Mori, anthropologist and folklorist (b. 1877) July 9 – Fujii Kōichi ...
Takata's story of Usui is now largely discredited in detaiils such as Usui having anything to do with Christianity. (This is now believed to have been invented in order to increase the acceptability of Reiki to Westerners.) The most authoratative sounding research I've seen published in English is that of Frank Petter, in his more recent books.