was a scholar of Kokugaku

Kokugaku

Kokugaku was a National revival, or, school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Tokugawa period...

, and student of the Japanese language

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

. He was a first son of Motoori Norinaga

Motoori Norinaga

was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period. He is probably the best known and most prominent of all scholars in this tradition.-Life:...

. He was called Kenzo(健蔵) in childhood.

Life

Haruniwa followed his father and studied the Japanese language from childhood. His father, Norinaga made Haruniwa copy literature of antiquity. Haruniwa wrote down that his father lectured by oral. He contracted an eye disease from August of 1791, eventually going blind in 1795. His disease is supposed to Uveitis

Uveitis

Uveitis specifically refers to inflammation of the middle layer of the eye, termed the "uvea" but in common usage may refer to any inflammatory process involving the interior of the eye....

 by Adachi Ken-ichi(足立巻一, a student of Haruniwa.).　Haruniwa transferred a Katoku（家督，patria potestas of Japan）of Motoori house to Motoori Ōhira

Motoori Ōhira

was a scholar of Kokugaku, and was the successor to Motoori Norinaga's school master. His pen name was Fuji no Kakitsu （藤 垣内）.- Life :Ōhira was born in Matsuzaka of the province of Ise . He was a son of Inagake Munetaka （稲懸 棟隆 or 稲掛 棟隆） who was a Merchant and Norinaga's pupil...

,who was an adoptive son of Motoori Norinaga.
Haruniwa continued with his study of the verb

Verb

A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax conveys an action , or a state of being . In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive...

 and finished his study of conjugation

Grammatical conjugation

In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection . Conjugation may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, voice, or other grammatical categories...

 in 1806. He is a pioneer of conjugation study in Japan.

Works

• "Kotoba no Yachimata" : Japanese name (詞八衢}Study of conjugation
• "Kotoba no Kayoiji" : Japanese name (詞通路)Study of an intransitive verb and transitive verb
• "Nochi-Suzunoyasyū" : Japanese name (後鈴屋集)Anthology of Haruniwa's Waka poems

See also

• Kokugaku
  Kokugaku
  Kokugaku was a National revival, or, school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Tokugawa period...
  
  
• Motoori Norinaga
  Motoori Norinaga
  was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period. He is probably the best known and most prominent of all scholars in this tradition.-Life:...
  
  
• List of linguists