Takamasa Nonoguchi was scholar of Japanese classics and a retainer of the Tsuwano Clan in Iwami Province (Shimane Prefecture). Nonoguchi later changed his family name to Okuni.
Background
Takamasa Nonoguchi was born in 1792.
Views
Takamasa Nonoguchi upheld the spirit of Shintoism as the basis of education. His ideas spurred many people to the cause of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.