 Atsutane endeavored to recast Motoori Norinaga’s gloomy assessment of what befalls humans when their earthly bodies perish. Where Norinaga followed Kojiki in presuming Yomi as the soul’s final resting spot, Atsutane taught that humans all become kami who proceed to a concealed world that in its essential aspects resembles the revealed world of the living. Atsutane took this eschatology a step further by extrapolating implications for the polity. 