The ('stand for the heavenly dew', or ) is a sacred entity in Tenrikyo and Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religions, including (but not limited to) Honmichi, Honbushin, Kami Ichijokyo, Tenri Sanrinkà Â, and Daehan Cheolligyo. Tenrikyo, as well as a few of its schisms such as , considers the kanrodai to be a physical pillar. However, later Tenrikyo-derived schisms such as Honmichi, Kami Ichijokyo, and Tenri Sanrinkà  give a new interpretation in which the kanrodai is embodied as a living person. Honbushin has installed a small stone kanrodai on Kamiyama, a mountain in Okayama, and also recognizes a human kanrodai who is the son of its founder à Ânishi Tama.
The first kanrodai was built in 1873 by Iburi Izà  at Nakayama Miki's residence.
The concept of the kanrodai was first taught by Nakayama Miki, the foundress of Tenrikyo, in 1868. In 1873, she instructed her disciple Iburi Izà Â, who was a carpenter by trade, to make a wooden kanrodai. Before the location of the Jiba was identified in 1875, the wooden kanrodai was kept in the storehouse where Nakayama Miki resided. According to Nakayama Miki, the real kanrodai is to be made of stone. As a result, the current wooden kanrodai at the Jiba is sometimes known as a .
In Tenrikyo, the kanrodai (çÂÂé²å°) is a hexagonal pillar in the Divine Residence (Oyasato) of the Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in Tenri, Nara, Japan. It marks the Jiba. Adherents believe that when the hearts of human beings have been adequately purified through the Service, a sweet dew would fall from the heavens onto a vessel placed on top of the stand. Since 1875, there have been several different kanrodais installed at the Jiba.
The kanrodai itself is not worshipped. Rather, the kanrodai serves as a channel through which God the Parent is worshipped.
In Tenrikyo, due to the sacrosanct nature of the kanrodai, photographing the kanrodai is prohibited.
The following verse from the Mikagura-uta is the most commonly sung verse that mentions the kanrodai.
In Honmichi, the kanrodai is a living person. The religion's first kanrodai was its founder à Ânishi Aijirà Â. After his death, his grandson à Ânishi Yasuhiko became the kanrodai.
Every year, Honmichi followers celebrate to commemorate their founder.
Adherents of Tenri Sanrinkà Â, which split from Honmichi, also followed the tradition of Honmichi by revering their leader as the living kanrodai. Currently active religious organizations derived from it include Kanrodai Reiri Shidà Âkai and à Âkanmichi.
Honbushin recognizes both physical and human kanrodais. After Honbushin's founder à Ânishi Tama died on September 1, 1969, religious authority was passed onto her son Takeda Sà Âshin (æ¦ç° å®ÂçÂÂ), who was proclaimed as the new Kanrodai-sama (çÂÂé²å°æ§Â) succeeding à Ânishi Aijirà Â.
In Honbushin, the kanrodai is placed outdoors, rather than indoors in a building as in Tenrikyo. Other than the main stone kanrodai, multiple "model" (wooden) kanrodais can be placed in different locations, unlike in Tenrikyo where only one kanrodai can be placed only at the headquarter's jiba. Honbushin's main kanrodai is located in a shrine on the summit of Kamiyama (), located southeast of the city center of Okayama. It is a small outdoor hexagonal stone pillar, with a much larger vertically standing stone disk installed behind it, and a torii gate in front of it. The location of the kanrodai is known as kanrodai-no-ba (çÂÂé²å°ã®場). This is symbolically represented in Honbushin's official logo, the Peace Mark (å¹³åÂÂãÂÂã¼ã¯). The logo consists of a kanrodai inside a circle representing the blessings of God, who is known as Kami-sama (ç¥Âæ§Â).
There is also a large outdoor wooden kanrodai at the Honbushin International Center in Mililani, Hawaii, United States. The actual main kanrodai (i.e., the kanrodai on the summit of Kamiyama) must be made of stone, whereas all of the other kanrodais are only considered to be models and are thus made of wood.
Honbushin followers chant the mantra Namu Kanrodai (Ã¥ÂÂç¡çÂÂé²å°) to honor the kanrodai.
In Kami Ichijokyo, the religion's founder Yonetani Tamasuisen (米谷çÂÂæ°´ä»Â) is revered as the .
, a Tenrikyo splinter group founded by in 1897, has a stone pillar called a shinbashira (çÂÂæ±) rather than a kanrodai inside its main temple building called Shinbashira-den (çÂÂæ±殿) in Ando, Nara. The stone kandorai is usually covered by a bamboo curtain.
Unlike in Japanese Tenrikyo, Daehan Cheolligyo's adherents in South Korea directly pray to the wooden kanrodai fixtures (while the one in the headquarters in Uijeongbu is much bigger) that are installed within the main halls of respective churches, instead of mirrors from Shinto traditions, during the localized services appropriate for the Korean social environment.
In 2024, a sacred pole called the mibashira (御æ±), considered to be the "zero point" (ã¼ãÂÂãÂÂã¤ã³ãÂÂ) and center of the earth and universe, was installed just outside the main worship hall (æ¬殿, honden) of the Uchà «shinkyà  Kà Âmyà Âjin () or Kà Âmyà  Kamu Tama Jingà « (å ÂæÂÂç¥ÂçÂÂç¥Âå®®) religion in Yoshida District, Fukui, Japan. The mibashira itself is cylindrical, while the base is heptagonal.