Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Motoori Norinaga was a Japanese scholar of active during the Edo period. He is conventionally ranked as one of the Four Great Men of Kokugaku studies. Life Norinaga was born in what is now Matsusaka in Ise Province . His ancestors were vassals of the Kitabatake clan in Ise Province for many generations. However, in the early Edo period they abandoned their samurai status, changing their surname to Ozu, and relocated to Matsusaka, where they became cotton wholesalers. The family initially prospered and had a store in Edo as well. . After his elder brother's death, Norinaga succeeded to the Ozu line. At one stage he was adopted out to a paper-making family but the bookish boy was not suited to business.
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