Kokugaku scholars

Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)

Japanese writer (1734–1809)

conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion

Japanese poet, historian and painter (1780-1832)

Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)

Japanese philosopher

poet

Japanese historian (1839-1931)

thumb|upright=1.5|Keichū was a Buddhist priest and a scholar of Kokugaku in the mid Edo period. Keichū's grandfather was a personal retainer of Katō Kiyomasa but his father was a rōnin from the Amagasaki fief. When he was 13, Keichū left home to become an acolyte of the Shingon sect, studying at Kaijō in Myōhōji, Imasato, Osaka. He subsequently attained the post of Ajari (or Azari) at Mount Kōya, and then became chief priest at Mandara-in in Ikutama, Osaka. It was at this time that he became friends with the poet-scholar Shimonokōbe Chōryū (下河辺長流, 1624–1686).

Japanese scientist (1769-1850)

Japanese writer and academic (1887–1953)

Japanese philosopher

Japanese scholar (1756-1833)

Japanese scholar

Japanese author

Japanese samurai, writer and historian (1802-1877)

Japanese linguist

Japanese linguist