Nakayama Shinnosuke (ä¸Âå±± çÂÂä¹Â亮, June 19, 1866 â December 31, 1914) was the first Shinbashira of Tenrikyo. He was the grandson of Nakayama Miki, the foundress of Tenrikyo. He was Shinbashira from 1881 to 1914.
According to Tenrikyo tradition, Nakayama Miki named Shinnosuke and designated him the Shinbashira while he was still in the womb. He was born to parents Kajimoto Sojirà  (梶æ¾£治éÂÂ) and Haru (ã¯ãÂÂ), the third daughter of Nakayama Miki, in the second year of the Japanese era Keià Â, on the seventh day of the fifth month, which corresponds to June 19, 1866 in the Gregorian calendar. Shinnosuke was raised in the Kajimoto household in Ichinomoto Village (æ«Âæ¬) until 1880, when Shinnosuke began to reside at the Nakayama household. Shinnosuke was officially adopted into the Nakayama family on September 23, 1881, and became the family's legal successor on September 22, 1882.
In 1896, Shinnosuke wrote the Oyasama gyà Âden (æÂÂç¥ÂæÂÂä¼Â, "The Biography of Oyasama"), the text on which Tenrikyo Church Headquarters' official biography of Nakayama Miki, The Life of Oyasama, would be based.