also: みたけきょう
Ontake-kyo; Mitake-kyo
A sect of Shinto centered on Mount Ontake. The reading おんたけきょう is standard; みたけきょう is also used.
Ontake-kyo takes Mount Ontake, which straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures, as its object of worship.
Standard kanji spelling for the sect.
Alternate reading みたけきょう, less common.
Variant using simplified 岳 instead of 嶽.
From 御嶽 (Ontake, referring to Mount Ontake) + 教 (kyō, 'teaching' or 'religion').