 Norinaga’s work on Kojiki formed the basis for his understanding of Japan’s Way of the kami (kami no michi, or in its Sino-Japanese reading Shintō). With his fundamentalist confidence in the text as a True Book (makoto no fumi) Norinaga argued that, as described in Kojiki, the native Way of Japan was a Way created not by humans like the imported Chinese Ways, but by the native kami who are ultimately responsible for all human action and activity. And, because of the centrality of kami to Norinaga’s thoughts on a native Japanese Way, Kokugaku has at times been referred to as a Shinto Revival. 