本居宣長『うひ山ぶみ』

What prompted me to pick up this book was an article titled “Learning Methods from Motoori Norinaga’s *Uhiyama-bumi*” by Ryoma Sato, a scholar of whom I am a huge fan. Intrigued by the unexpected title, I gave it a read and was surprised to discover that a figure from the Edo period—someone I had never paid much attention to outside of Japanese history exams—had left behind universal teachings on learning methods. For example, there is the following passage: When reading a book casually, no...