Talk:Motoori Norinaga

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I have roughly translated the Japanese article on Norinaga. The previous short article ignored Norinaga's achievements as a scholar and grammarian, instead choosing to point out his ideas on excluding Chinese influence from Japanese culture. This is definitely a case where a simplistic summing up of a man's thinking, without any context, totally fails to do him justice.

Bathrobe 04:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)


Norinaga was strongly influenced by the Chinese thinker Wang Yangming (王陽明). Much of Norinaga's ideas on natural spontaneity and intuition come from Wang Yangming, who preceded Norinaga by 2 centuries.

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