Background
Masazumi Kamochi was born in Tosa, Kochi Prefecture.
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Masazumi Kamochi was born in Tosa, Kochi Prefecture.
In spite of abject poverty he taught himself to eventually become one of the greatest scholars of the Japanese classics of his time. His book Manyoshu Kogi (commentary) which was published posthumously by the Imperial Household (1879) was declared a great contribution to the academic world of that period.