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Motoori Norinaga

1730 - 1801

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Motoori Norinaga (本居 宣長; 21 June 1730 – 5 November 1801) was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period. He is conventionally ranked as one of the Four Great Men of Kokugaku (nativist) studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Motoori Norinaga is the 791st most popular philosopher (down from 764th in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from Japan (down from 687th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Motoori Norinaga ranks 791 out of 1,267. Before him are Lubna of Córdoba, Abhinavagupta, Theodor Lipps, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Domingo de Soto, and Eric Hoffer. After him are Gilbert Simondon, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Philippa Foot, Henry of Ghent, Nikolai Amosov, and Jean-Luc Marion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Motoori Norinaga ranks 17. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, James Bruce, Otto Friedrich Müller, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, and Antonio Sacchini. After him are Augustin Pajou, Velu Nachiyar, William Hamilton, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Johann Hedwig, and William Hudson. Among people deceased in 1801, Motoori Norinaga ranks 21. Before him are Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Daniel Chodowiecki, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Sharaku. After him are Franz Moritz von Lacy, Ignacy Krasicki, Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin, Antoine de Rivarol, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal, and Johann Gottfried Köhler.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Motoori Norinaga ranks 767 out of 6,245. Before him are Jiro Taniguchi (1947), Prince Yasuhiko Asaka (1887), Nobuko Kondo (1956), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Kyōka Izumi (1873), and Masateru Akita (1982). After him are Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465), Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Daidō Moriyama (1938), Soga no Umako (551), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), and Satoru Nakajima (1953).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Motoori Norinaga ranks 6. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), and Kitaro Nishida (1870). After him are Hayashi Razan (1583), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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