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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...