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17: 138:(木下長嘯子, 1569–1649), to undertake the project. However his dilatory approach, combined with illness, and finally death, impeded his work and the task fell to Keichū, a close friend. The result was the latter's 87: 135: 102: 63: 116:
His prolific works set a new standard in the study of the classics, though building on recent revivals of interest in the subject. When the
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and reconstructed distinctions in the old Japanese lexicon based on the earliest texts. In addition to these Keichū wrote the
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region for a while, made his way back to Mount Kōya. Deeply influenced by the thinking of
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However, he disliked the worldly duties of his work and, after wandering around the
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fief. When he was 13, Keichū left home to become an acolyte of the
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scholarship. In particular, applied methods borrowed from Chinese
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A Treatise on the Proper way to Write Japanese Words
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Index


Kokugaku
Edo period
Katō Kiyomasa
rōnin
Amagasaki
Shingon
Myōhōji
Imasato
Osaka
Ajari
Mount Kōya
Ikutama
Shimonokōbe Chōryū
Kinki
Kūkai
Fuseya Shigeta
Izumi Province
Settsu
daimyō
Mito
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Man'yōshū
Kinoshita Chōshōshi
kokugaku
Kaozheng
empiricism
Buddhism
Shinto
Waji

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