Japanese Female Spiritual-Human Being of 100 Years Ago
Not only Christ Jesus but some people performed miracles even in Japan as officially recorded, say, 100 years ago.
Toshie Osanami (1863 - 1907) could produce from nowhere water in a sealed bottle that could heal various sickness. She started to exercise the supernatural power since the age around 20 after showing some spiritual power such as prediction about her neighbors while working as maid in her village, which surprised her landlord.
As time went by, people around her village (in the northeast of Honshu Island) came to ask her to cure their diseases with empty bottles in the size of a wine bottle. She prayed to gods of shintoism, sitting before a shinto altar in her home for half an hour, with bottles, which sick people or their families had brought, placed before the altar. And then suddenly water appeared in the bottles, with various colors such as red, yellow, brown, etc. according to the types of sickness of the sick people. However, when someone tried to test her, pretending to be a sick man, no water appeared.
While she was living with her mother in their village, her reputation spread and many sick people came to her house to be cured by her mysteriously generated water. Finally, the police arrested her for causing social disturbance and performing illegal medication. She was put in a jail for two months till her release for no guilty. During this detention, she did not spontaneously eat and drink almost at all. She almost did not excrete. She did not have bath, but her hair never lost luster and her body never lost aromatic odor. She was not bitten by a mosquito while others in cells were suffering mosquitos. Indeed, even in her home, she had been living in such a manner, and she looked young as if she had been a girl before the age of first menstruation. Her skin looked transparently white according to a girl who knew Toshie well as she was financially helped by her.
Later at the age of late 20s, she visited her younger brother who was an ordinary business man in Osaka, a big city next to Tokyo, and performed the healing practice, drawing big attention from the society. But, newspaper companies suspected her of cheating people. A reporter was sent to her to check a trick, but she produced healing water before him among audience. Yet, their anti-Osanami campaign led to a legal step. And, subject to a court, she performed healing water generation from nowhere while locked in a small space. Judges had to admit the miracle. Even one judge took it to his home. So, his brother asked the court to certify her supernatural or spiritual power as in the former case in the local police in her home region. But, the court and police gave only ambiguous words.
She died at around 43, while she still looked like being 20 years old or so. She predicted her own death two months before her death like Swedenborg. She did not marry and did not try to earn big money as professional religious woman, although she founded her own religious body with help from her supporters. She mostly helped and cured people in an innocent manner. According to her younger brother, she was simple-hearted like a young girl all through her life. But, she was an active woman, sometimes defeating strong men in arm wrestling. She liked to climb mountains, such as Mt. Fuji and other mountains with spiritual reputation, walking up surprisingly quick and leaving companions behind. She occasionally wrote some splendid Kanji letters as she said that the spirit of a certain past notable calligraphy master came into her mind to occupy her hand, although she did not even learn in a modern primary school. Even today, she is revered by some people concerned with her legacy.
It is mystery why she could obtain such supernatural power. But, among her distant ancestors, there was a noble man named Sugawara-no Michizane in Kyoto, an ancient capital of Japan, about 1,000 years ago, who was well known in the Japanese history for his scholarly acquisition but suffered a political tragedy.
Some people interested in spiritualism in Japan today call her a spiritual-human being. Even in the Internet, we can still see and find some information about her although mostly in Japanese.
Anyway, she is a kind of miracle woman whose record is officially found in modern Japan, since she died in 1907.
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Luke 1, King James Version
13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.