kokugaku
Sign in to savewas an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period. scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of research into the early Japanese classics.
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- Instance of
- social movement
- Subclass of
- Japanese studies
- Country
- Tokugawa shogunate
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- time period
- Edo period
- topic's main category
- Category:Kokugaku
- opposite of
- kangaku
- is the study of
- history of Japan
- has characteristic
- Japanese nationalism
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was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period. scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of research into the early Japanese classics.
==History== thumb|upright|Tanimori Yoshiomi (1818–1911), a scholar.
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