Background
Yoshikazu Yoshimi was born in 1673 in Nagoya, Japan.
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Yoshikazu Yoshimi
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Career
Yoshikazu Yoshimi was originally a Shinto priest at Toshogu Shrine in Nagoya. Later studied Shintoism of the Suika school together with Ansai Yamazaki and Kimmichi Ogimachi and achieved great fame as a religious scholar. He was also an ardent scholar of national classics and under his aegis the study of the subject spread widely and many distinguished scholars flocked round him as pupils.
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Yoshikazu Yoshimi broke with the Watarai and Urabe schools and founded his own school of Shintoism based on historical facts and insisted that true Shintoism meant the unity between the shrine and the state.
