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322 already noticed; the Iso no Kami Shishukugen, a treatise on poetry; the Gio-jin Gai-gen, an attack on the Chinese philosophy; the Tama no Ogushi, a valuable critical and exegetical work on the Genji Monogatari; the Kenkiōjin ("The Madman Fettered"), a controversial work written in reply to hostile criticisms of the sacred Shinto books; the Kuzuhana, composed in answer to a similar attack by a scholar named Ichikawa Tatsumaro; the Uiyama bumi, a treatise on methods of study, and the Tama-arare ("Hail of Pearls"), a lively and amusing critique of common errors in writing Japanese.

The Saki-take no ben is a refutation of various erroneous notions current with regard to the gods of Ise and their worship. The "abominable heresy" of some Kangakusha who would euhemerise the Sun Goddess into an ordinary mortal empress, and make the Takama no Hara (or Plain of High Heaven) the name of the place where her capital stood, is duly anathematised. "What doubt can there be that Amaterasu no Ohomi Kami [the Sun Goddess] is the great ancestress of the Mikados, and that she is no other than the Sun of Heaven which illumines this world? These things are in their nature infinite, not to be measured, and mysterious."

The Tamagatsuma (in fifteen volumes, published posthumously in 1812), may be called "Motoöri's Note-book." It is a collection of jottings of a very miscellaneous character, comprising notes on Shinto ceremonial, on the old literature, on grammar and spelling, on poetry, on ancient customs, on the iniquity of Chinese principles and institutions, &c., &c. It is a mine of instruction to all students of Japanese antiquity, but has little except perhaps a few autobiographical memoranda which will interest others.