This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Hogen Fukunaga, born Teruyoshi Fukunaga, founded Ho No Hana Sanpogyo in Japan in 1980. The movement was built around a distinctive diagnostic claim: that Fukunaga, known to followers as Hogen, could read the soles of a person's feet and detect physical and spiritual ailments there, including serious illness such as cancer, invisible to conventional medicine.
Followers who received a foot reading were then directed toward a structured program of costly seminars presented within the movement as the necessary cure for whatever the reading had detected. That combination, a striking diagnostic performance followed by an expensive course of paid instruction, became the organization's core method of both recruiting and retaining members through the 1980s and well into the 1990s.
The movement built a substantial national following across Japan on that basis, drawing largely middle aged followers, many of them women, who came to Fukunaga seeking answers to health concerns the foot reading claimed to reveal. The scale of that following, and the considerable money it generated through the seminar system, later became the direct subject of Japanese fraud proceedings brought against its founder.