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*''Born: [[1824]]''
*''Died: [[1885]]''
Kamei Koremi was lord of [[Tsuwano han]] and, following the [[Meiji Restoration]], became vice-minister (''jikan'') of the [[Ministry of Rites|Office of Rites]]. Along with Under-secretary of Rites [[Fukuba Bisei]], he was among the chief officials responsible for the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' ("separation of Shinto and Buddhism") policies.
Kamei was an adherent of the [[Hirata school]] of ''[[kokugaku]]'' (Nativism), and explicitly referred to Buddhism as a "heretical law" (''jahô'') from which the Japanese people needed to be freed, so they could return to "the worship and reverence of [Shinto] shrines by all people below heaven, [and] the preservation of the doctrine of our Imperial nation."<ref>Ketelaar, 9.</ref>
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==References==
*James Ketelaar, ''Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan'', Princeton University Press (1991), 8.
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*''Died: [[1885]]''
Kamei Koremi was lord of [[Tsuwano han]] and, following the [[Meiji Restoration]], became vice-minister (''jikan'') of the [[Ministry of Rites|Office of Rites]]. Along with Under-secretary of Rites [[Fukuba Bisei]], he was among the chief officials responsible for the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' ("separation of Shinto and Buddhism") policies.
Kamei was an adherent of the [[Hirata school]] of ''[[kokugaku]]'' (Nativism), and explicitly referred to Buddhism as a "heretical law" (''jahô'') from which the Japanese people needed to be freed, so they could return to "the worship and reverence of [Shinto] shrines by all people below heaven, [and] the preservation of the doctrine of our Imperial nation."<ref>Ketelaar, 9.</ref>
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==References==
*James Ketelaar, ''Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan'', Princeton University Press (1991), 8.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]