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The result of so much time and endeavor, Kojikiden surpassed in volume and quality all previous works relating to Kojiki , 712.1 With Kojikiden, educated readers were able to comprehend the ancient text, which was transcribed in erratic and abstruse Chinese and full of obscurities. Further, the encyclopedic nature of Kojikiden enabled readers to grasp much of ancient Japanese civilization, provided that they were willing to tackle the mass of detail contained in the lengthy work.2 Norinaga believed in interpreting a text exhaustively. For that reason his work in Kojikiden is sometimes positivistic research at its most tedious, drawing from a vast amount of sources, including Confucian and Buddhist writings (of whose doctrines he disapproved). He shows himself to be a gifted scholar, however, extracting many insights from the material. His method is logical and objective, the delivery uncontrived, and the conclusions forthright. Unfortunately sustenance for such effort came from a passion, a belief beyond the ordinary realm of reasoning, that the Kojiki text was historically authentic. Positively, this passion generated and propelled his work. But it was also a negative factor since the belief that all the records in Kojiki were valid undermined the persuasive power of his otherwise academically formidable study. Like all commentaries, Kojikiden has no topical intellectual organization. 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