The reasoning to affirm authenticity, the study to `adopt an outlook of compassion' based on the Japanese classical literature developed by Norinaga was to pursue the process of cleansing sympathetic feelings that are specific to Japan, not possible in Han-style structural logic.
宣長の打ち出した国学による「もののあはれを知る」合理研究は、漢式の構造的な論理では救済不能な日本固有の共感による心情の浄化プロセスの追及であった。