 Toward the end of his life Norinaga composed a liturgy for personal morning worship, which was his way of elevating his thoughts on Japan’s native ancient Way into something approaching a contemporary religion. If Norinaga was constrained in this regard, however, it was by Kojiki itself, which depicted life after death as an uninviting eternity in the depraved and polluted nether world called Yomi. As he expressed this in verse: