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Motoori Norinaga (本居 宣長, 21 June 1730 – 5
November 1801) was a ****anese
scholar of
Kokugaku active during the Edo period. He is
conventionally ranked...
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Motoori Haruniwa (本居 春庭,
March 17, 1763 -
December 13, 1828) was a
scholar of Kokugaku, and
student of the ****anese language. He was a
first son of Motoori...
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Motoori Ōhira (本居 大平,
March 17, 1756 -
October 23, 1833) was a
scholar of Kokugaku, and was the
successor to
Motoori Norinaga's
school master. His pen...
- Na****o
Motoori (sometimes
spelled Motohori) (本居 長世 ; 4
April 1885 – 14
October 1945) was a ****anese composer. "Tanpopo" (Dandelion, たんぽぽ),
classical children's...
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philologist during mid-Edo
period ****an.
Along with Kada no Azumamaro,
Motoori Norinaga, and
Hirata Atsutane, he was
regarded as one of the Four Great...
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Kojiki received its most
serious study and
exposition in the
hands of
Motoori Norinaga, who
obtained a copy of the Kan'ei
printed edition in 1754. After...
- ("****anese studies") or
inishie manabi ("antiquity studies"), a term
favored by
Motoori Norinaga and his school.
Drawing heavily from
Shinto and ****an's ancient...
- and
earth to
every other thing."
Motoori's admirer and self-proclaimed
disciple Hirata Atsutane, in
contrast to
Motoori,
described Ame-no-Minak****hi as...
- is a 44-volume
commentary on the
Kojiki written by the
kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga. The Kojiki-den is a
commentary on the Kojiki, an eighth-century...
- ****anese
definitions of the mitama,
developed later by many
thinkers like
Motoori Norinaga,
maintain it
consists of
several "spirits",
relatively independent...
