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Motoori Norinaga本居宣長alternative words: Norinaga Motoori keywords: famous person , philosophy , scholar related topics: Edo period , Kojiki , Kokugaku related web sites: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~MARUYAMA/tokugawa/norinaga.htm , http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~rinri/036.htm , http://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit/50/html/catalog/c065.html , http://www.city.matsusaka.mie.jp/KAN/T01/MOTO.html , http://www.izumishobo.co.jp/iode27-1a.htm explanation: Kokugaku philosopher. Born in 1730 in a rich merchant family of Ki domain. Soon his family business declined, he had to go to Kyoto to study the medicine to earn a living. After having returned back to home, he continued to study classic literature. In 1762, he met Kamo Mabuchi and became his disciple. After a long study of Kojiki, he published in 1798 Kojiki-den which affirms a supremacy of Japanese ideology over Confucianism and Buddhism. Hirata Atsutane was his disciple. | |