kokugaku
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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.