The National Learning of Motoori Norinaga and his school, which read the Kojiki against the Chinese heart and re-founded Japanese identity on the ancient texts.
Kokugaku, National Learning, turned philology into a movement: its reading of the Kojiki against Confucian and Buddhist overlays prepared the way for the Meiji restoration and for State Shinto after it.
Kokugaku across the site
Sources
Primary
- Motoori Norinaga, Kojiki-den (1764-1798).
Secondary
- Harry D. Harootunian, Things Seen and Unseen (1988).