The Kojiki-den (古事記伝) is a 44-volume commentary on the Kojiki written by the kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga.
The Kojiki-den is a commentary on the Kojiki, an eighth-century work of Shinto historiography and mythology,[1] by the Edo period kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga.
[1] While studying in Kyoto in the seventh month of the sixth year of Hōreki (1756),[1] he purchased a copy of the Kan'ei edition of the Kojiki,[2] so it is thought that he read the work shortly after this point.
[3] His early writings following this date, such as the 1758 Aware Ben (安波礼弁) and Ashiwake Obune (排蘆小船) were more focused on the Nihon Shoki.
[3] In the 1761 Ame Tsuchi no Ben (阿毎菟知弁), he had moved toward placing more value on linguistic scholarship and attacked the Nihon Shoki's Chinese for being a barrier to research into the ancient Japanese language.