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Nishida Naokai |
(1793-1865) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Born as the fourth child of Takahashi Motoyoshi, a retainer of Kokura Domain (in present-day Fukuoka Prefecture), he was adopted by Nishida Naoaki. His childhood name was Shōzaburō, and his epistolary n... |
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Nitta Kuniteru |
(1829-192) Founder of the Shinto sect Shintō Shūseiha. His original name was Takezawa Kenzaburō. Born on the fifth day of the second month of 1829 in Tokushima Domain of Awa Province (present-day Tokushima Prefecture), Nitta was third son of samurai father Takezawa Hishiyō and mot... |
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Oka Kumaomi |
(1783-1851) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and Shinto priest of the late Edo period. Born on the ninth day of the third month of 1783 in the village of Kibemura, Kanoashi District in the province of Iwami (present-day Shimane Prefecture). Kumaomi was the illegitimate chil... |
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Orikuchi Shinobu |
(1887-1953) Scholar of folklore, Japanese literature and Shinto. As a poet, he wrote under the name Shaku Chōkū. Born February 11, 1887, to a merchant family in Kizumura Village, Nishinari District, Osaka, Orikuchi graduated in 1910 from Kokugakuin University. He worked for a whi... |
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Saeki Ariyoshi |
(1867-1945) Historian from the Meiji to the Showa eras. Born in the ninth month of 1867 in Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, to the priest Saeki Arihisa of the shrine Oyama Jinja in Toyama's Tateyama region. Ariyoshi moved to Tokyo in 1882 and graduated from the Research Inst... |
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Sano Tsunehiko |
(1834-196) Founder of the Shinto sect Shinrikyō. Born as the eldest son of Sano Tsunekatsu on the sixteenth day of the second month of 1834 in the town of Tokuriki in Buzen Province's Kiku District (present-day Kitakyūshū City, Fukuoka Prefecture). He studied National Learning ( ko... |
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Satō Nobuhiro |
(1769-185) Scholar of economics in the late Edo period. His style was Genkai, his common name was Momosuke, and he used numerous epistolary names, including Chinen, Shōan and Yūsai. Born in 1769 as the eldest son of Satō Nobutaka, a physician in Okachi District, Dewa Province (an are... |
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Sawatari Hiromori |
(1811-1884) Shinto priest and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Son of Sawatari Moriaki, a Shinto priest ( kannushi ) at the shrine Rokusho no Miya (presently Ōkunitama Jinja) in Fuchū, Musashi Province (present-day Fuchū City, Tokyo... |
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Senge Takatomi |
(1845-1918) Religious practitioner and politician of the Meiji and Taisho eras. Avowed eightieth-generation descendent of the "divine" governor- kami of Izumo ( Izumo kokusō ); chief priest ( gūji ) at the shrine Izumo Taisha; and first leader of the Shinto sect Izumo Ō... |
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Senge Toshizane |
(1764-1831) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Common name Kiyonushi, with epistolary names Kisai and Umenoya, among others. Senge was born on the sixteenth day of the first month of 1764 as the third son of Toshikatsu, the seventy-fifth generation Izu... |
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Shikida Toshiharu |
(1817-192) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo and Meiji periods. Born on the twentieth day of the seventh month of 1817 in the village of Shikida in Buzen Province's Usa District (present-day Usa City, Oita Prefecture), he was the second son of the Shinto priest M... |
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Shishino Nakaba |
(1844-84) Founder of Fusōkyō, one of the thirteen Meiji-era groups of so-called "sectarian Shinto" (Kyōha Shintō). Born on the ninth day of the ninth month (lunar) of 1844 in the town of Kumanojō (located in the Satsuma domain's Satsuma District, present-day city of Sen... |
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Sonoda Moriyoshi |
(1785-184) Scholar of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the late Edo period, born to the Arakida lineage. Son of Sonoda Moritsura (1757-1812), Suppliant Priest ( negi ) at Ise's Inner Shrine (Naikū), Sonoda Moriyoshi was born in 1785 as the younger twin of Moritsune. His childho... |
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Sugiura Jūgō |
(1855-1924) Educator and philosopher of the Meiji and Taisho eras. Born in 1855 as the second son of Confucianist Sugiura Jūbun in the Zeze Domain of Ōmi Province (in present-day Shiga Prefecture). His styled was Tendai Dōshi. As a youth, he received training in Chinese classics at t... |
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Suzuka Tsuratane |
(1795-187) Shinto practitioner and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the late Edo period. Born in 1795 to a priestly family ( shake ) of the Kyoto shrine Yoshida Jinja. The Suzuka were hereditary family retainers to the Yoshida clan. Suzuka held the posts of Provisional Jun... |
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Suzuki Shigetane |
(1812-63) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the lage Edo era. His common names included Katsuzaemon, and his styles included Kashinoya and Izukashi. Shigetani was his formal name. He was born in 1812 in the village of Nii, Tsuna District, Awaji Province (present-day Hyōg... |
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Tachibana Mitsuyoshi |
(1635-173) Shintoist of the early Edo period. His formal name was Mitsuyoshi, written光義 or 美津与志, and he used the epistolary name Ishōan and others. He was given the Shinto religious name ( reishagō ) Jureishin by the Yoshida house. Tachibana was born in 1635, in Hirado of Hizen Provin... |
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Tachibana Moribe |
(1781-1849) A scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period, whose common name was Motosuke and epistolary names included Hōko, Chian, Shiigamoto, and others. Tachibana was born as the eldest son of the Iida family in Komuku Village, Asake District, , Ise Province ... |
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Tada Yoshitoshi |
(1698-175) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ); antiquarian scholar and author of Floating World Tales ( Ukiyo zōshi ) of the mid-Edo period. According to general belief, he was born in 1698, but 1694, 1695, 1696 are all possible years for his birth. Tada's original lineage nam... |
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Takenouchi Shikibu |
(1712-67) Proponent of Suika Shintō in the mid-Edo period. His formal name was Takamochi, and he used the epistolary names Shūan and Seian. He was born in Niigata, Kanbara District of Echigo Province (present-day Niigata Prefecture) in 1712, in a hereditary physician's household... |
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