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Kokugaku国学alternative words: Kokugaku school, Koku-gaku, Koku gaku, National learning, Japanese national learning keywords: philosophy , school , shintoism related topics: Motoori Norinaga , Edo period , Shintoism , Manyoshu , Kojiki related web sites: http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~rinri/036.htm explanation: Beginning with an innocent study of Japanese classics such as Manyoshu and Kojiki by Kamo Mabuchi and Motoori Norinaga, in order to justify a lack of Japanese ideology in face to well structured foreign disciplines such as Confucianism and Buddhism, it became more radical with the works of Hirata Atsutane. It formed a core of ideological arm when Japanese began to feel pressures of westerners at the end of Edo period, especially among samurai of Mito domain. | |