Motoori Norinaga (本居 宣長, 21 June 1730 – 5 November 1801) was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period. He is conventionally ranked as...

in the hands of Motoori Norinaga, who obtained a copy of the Kan'ei printed edition in 1754. After meeting Mabuchi in 1763, Norinaga began to devote his...

philologist during mid-Edo period Japan. Along with Kada no Azumamaro, Motoori Norinaga, and Hirata Atsutane, he was regarded as one of the Four Great Men...

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 work...

Yamato-damashii (大和魂). It has also been described in Japanese literature. Motoori Norinaga (1730–1801) devoted about 35 years of his life to the elaboration of...

Japanese definitions of the mitama, developed later by many thinkers like Motoori Norinaga, maintain it consists of several "spirits", relatively independent...

philosophy. They are traditionally enumerated as: Kada no Azumamaro Kamo no Mabuchi Motoori Norinaga Hirata Atsutane Japanese definition 個人的には納得できない「国学の四大人...

Kokugaku, and student of the Japanese language. He was a first son of Motoori Norinaga. He was called Kenzo (健蔵) in childhood. Haruniwa followed his father...

University of Washington Press, 1964, pp. 66 ff. Motoori, Norinaga (2007). The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey Archived 3 July 2023...

studies") or inishie manabi ("antiquity studies"), a term favored by Motoori Norinaga and his school. Drawing heavily from Shinto and Japan's ancient literature...

picked up and used by 18th century Edo period Japanese cultural scholar Motoori Norinaga in his literary criticism of The Tale of Genji, and later to other...

mythical origins of Japan's people, culture, and the imperial family. Motoori Norinaga, an Edo-period Japanese scholar, interpreted Kojiki and his commentary...

authors expressing their own opinions on the god's role and importance. Motoori Norinaga, in his commentary on the Kojiki, criticized the Watarai priesthood...

'master of the water'". Here Minakata draws on Edo Period scholar Motoori Norinaga' suggestion that the -chi signified an honorific. As stated above folklorist...

History . . of Japan . 日本歴史. Retrieved 2023-12-10. Norinaga Motoori (2007). The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey. University of Hawaii...

houses of other nations. These ideas were expanded by Kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga, and seen in Takenouchi Shikibu's theory of absolute loyalty to the...

in the late Edo period waka faced new trends from beyond the court. Motoori Norinaga, the great reviver of the traditional Japanese literature, attempted...

the collection as pure and simple. Through his study of the Kojiki, Motoori Norinaga argued that the essence of the Japanese literature came from "mono...

where various kami and spirits of ancestors live with eternal youth. Motoori Norinaga categorized three types of Tokoyo: a world of perpetual darkness, a...

asahi ni niou yamazakura bana by the Japanese classical scholar, Motoori Norinaga. The poem reads: If someone asks about the Yamato spirit [Spirit of...

Genji tr. Edward Seidensticker, 1976, 1:362) Each man, according to Motoori Norinaga (who wrote a Commentary of The Tale of Genji ), has at his birth a...

It contains the grave of the Edo period kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga and his son Motoori Harunaga, which was collectively designated a National Historic...

Japanese scholars in the 19th century such as Hirata Atsutane and Motoori Norinaga have used the global flood myths of other cultures to argue for the...

poetry written in 1763 by the eighteenth century Japanese scholar Motoori Norinaga. Norinaga was one of the leading scholars in the Kokugaku (国学, lit. 'National...

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the word kami was derived from Ainu word kamuy. In his Kojiki-den, Motoori Norinaga gave a definition of kami: "any being whatsoever which possesses some...

from a more academic standpoint. Scholars such as Kamo no Mabuchi and Motoori Norinaga first advanced the theory of Kodō, followed by Hirata Atsutane and...

re-discovery. The Edo period linguists Kamo no Mabuchi (1765) and Motoori Norinaga (1767–1798) separately and independently identified the law during...

her domain Yamatai. The Edo-period philosophers Arai Hakuseki and Motoori Norinaga began the controversies over whether Yamatai was located in Northern...

ancestor of the Ki clan. During the medieval and early modern periods, Motoori Norinaga in his commentary on the Kojiki wrote that Kamimusubi and Takamimusubi...