Basic Terms of Shinto 神道基本用語集

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Motoori Norinaga
本居宣長
Text Motoori, Norinaga (1730-1801). One of the four great scholars of the movement known as Restoration Shinto (Fukko Shintô). A student of Kamo no Mabuchi, Motoori raised the study of National Learning (kokugaku) to a high level, spending much of his life in writing the Kojiki-den, a detailed examination of the Records of Ancient Matters (Kojiki). His Naobi no mi-tama is a simple exposition of his theories.