 After Azumamaro’s death in 1736, the center of native studies shifted from Kyoto to Edo, where Azumamaro’s scholarship was already represented by his adopted son Arimaro (1706–51). Arimaro was then joined in Edo by another of his father’s students, Kamo no Mabuchi, whose magnum opus would be a comprehensive study of Man’yōshū and the effort to glean from it an authentic ancient native Way believed to be encoded within its verses.