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Urata Nagatami |
(184-93) Shinto scholar of the Meiji era. Born on the first day of the third month of 1840 in the town of Uji in Watarai District of the province of Ise. His style name was Kokufu and he used the epistolary name Kaitei. In 1857, Urata inherited his family's hereditary positions of Naikū go... |
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Wakabayashi Kyōsai |
(1679-1732) A scholar of Suika Shintō and Confucianism in the mid-Edo period. Born in Kyoto in 1679, his style name was Shiin, his formal names were Masayoshi and Yukiyasu, and his epistolary names included Kyōsai, Bōnanken, and Hikei. A student of Asami Keisai, Wakabayashi and fel... |
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Watanabe Ikarimaru |
(1836-1915) A Shinto priest ( shinkan ) and scholar of National Studies ( kokugaku ) active from the end of the Tokugawa regime through the Meiji era. His formal name was initially named Shigetō, but later changed to Ikarimaru. His common names included Yokichirō and Tetsujirō, and h... |
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Watarai Ieyuki |
(1256-1356) A scholar of Ise Shintō during the Nanbokuchō period (ca. 1336-1392). Born as the first son of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) Suppliant Priest ( negi ) Muramatsu Ariyuki, Watarai began his career as a negi in 1306 and at the age of eighty-six reached the position of First Negi of th... |
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Watarai Tsuneyoshi |
(1263-1339) A scholar of Ise Shintō during the late Kamakura and Nanbokuchō periods. Born as the second son of Higaki Sadanao, the First Suppliant ( ichi no negi ), also called the Superintendent or chōkan ) of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū). His initial ... |
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Watarai Yukitada |
(1236-135) A scholar of Ise Shintō of the late Kamakura period. His father was Nishikawara Yukitsugu, but he was raised by his grandfather, Yukiyoshi. Watarai Yukitada was appointed as Suppliant Priest ( negi ) of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in 1251... |
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Yamada Akiyoshi |
(1844-1892) A patriot ( shishi ) of the Restoration period and a Meiji military man and politician. Born in 1844 in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture's Hagi City as the son of a retainer of the Chōshū Domain. His childhood name was Ichinojō and his epistolary name was Kūsai. He studied ... |
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Yamada Yoshio |
(1873–1958) A scholar of Japanese philology and literature who was active from the later Meiji through the Shōwa eras. Born in Toyama Prefecture on May 10, 1873, Yamada dropped out of Toyama's ordinary middle school, then passed the teacher's license examination for elementary an... |
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Yamaga Sokō |
(1622-1685) An early Edo-period scholar of Confucianism and Military Science. His formal name was Takasuke, his style was Shikei, and he had the epistolary names Sokō and Inzan. Born in 1622 in Aizu Wakamatsu, he began his study of the Neo-Confucian Zhuxi under Hayashi Razan at the a... |
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Yamaguchi Okinari |
(1831-1886) A Meiji-era scholar of the Grand Shrines of Ise ( Ise Jingū ). His childhood name was Tanekichi, his common name was Denbee, later changed to Okinari, and his epistolary names were Tōen and Shunpo. He was born in the Watarai District of Ise Province (present-day Mie Prefec... |
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Yamamoto Nobuki |
(1873-1944) A scholar of modern Shintō history and D.Lit ( bungaku hakushi ). Born in 1873 to a family of hereditary Shintō priests ( shinshoku ) at Tachima village, Kita-Uwa District, Ehime Prefecture, he became a follower of the Shinto sect Konkōkyō. In 1895 he graduated from Kokug... |
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Yamazaki Ansai |
(1619-1682) An early Edo-period scholar of Confucianism and Shinto. His style was Moriyoshi, his common name was Kaemon, and his epistolary name was Ansai. His posthumous "spirit-shrine" name ( reisha-gō ) was Suika. Born in Kyoto on the ninth day of the twelfth month in ... |
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Yanagita Kunio |
(1875-1962) Founder of modern Japanese folklore studies. Born on July 31, 1875 to the Matsuoka family in Tsujikawa, Tawara Village, Jintō District, Hyōgō Prefecture, the sixth of eight brothers and sisters. His father Matsuoka Misao (otherwise known as Yakusai) was a proponent o... |
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Yano Harumichi |
(1823-87) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the Hirata Atsutane school in the late Edo period and early Meiji era. Born the eldest son of Yano Michimasa, retainer of Iyo Ōzu Domain (in present-day Ehime Prefecture), Yano was an eager student from childhood. In 1845, he trav... |
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Yashiro Hirokata |
(1758-1841) Tokugawa shogunal retainer and scholar of Japanese studies of the late Edo period. His common name was Tarō, his formal name was Akikata (which he later changed to Akitora and Akitake), and he had the epistolary name Rinchi. He was born in 1758 in Edo as the son of Tokugawa r... |
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Yoshida Kanemi |
(1535-161) Head of Yoshida Shintō in the Azuchi-Momoyama period (ca. 1574-1600). Born in 1535 as the eldest son of Yoshida Kanemigi, he was also the older brother of Bonshun. He was at first called Kaneyasu, but later changed his name to Kanemi. In his career at court, he reached the ce... |
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Yoshida Kanemigi |
(1516-1573) Head of Yoshida Shintō in Japan's period of warring states ( sengoku , ca. 1457-1568). Born on the twentieth day of the fourth month (May 21), 1516, as the second son of Kiyohara Nobukata (who was the third son of Yoshida Kanetomo). The Yoshida house was at that time led by Ka... |
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Yoshida Kanetomo |
(1435-1511) Shrine priest of the later Muromachi period, and founder of Yoshida Shintō. Born in 1435 as the son of Yoshida Kanena, the Provisional Senior Assistant Director of Divinities ( jingi gon no taifu ), Yoshida was at first called Kanetoshi, but later changed his name to Kane... |
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Yoshikawa Koretari |
(1616-1694) A Shinto scholar of the early Edo period, and founder of Yoshikawa Shintō, whose lineage name can also be read as "Kikkawa," and his formal name as "Koretaru." His other formal names included Motonari, Koretari, and Yoritoki, and his common names ... |
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Yoshimi Yoshikazu |
(1673-1761) A Shinto scholar of the mid-Edo period. The characters for his formal name Yoshikazu can also be read as Kōwa or as Yukikazu. His style ( azana ) was Shirei, and his common names included Sadanosuke and Katsuya. His epistolary names included Kyōken and Fūsuiō. The second s... |
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