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prolixity. This is partly inseparable from Motoöri's purism, which leads him to reject many useful and thoroughly naturalised Chinese words in favour of Japanese forms of expression, however circuitous, and is partly owing to an inveterate habit which he has of repeating himself, especially when an opportunity offers of denouncing Chinese proclivities or of magnifying the merits of Shinto.

Motoöri's Wabun has had many imitators, and it has exercised a perceptible influence on some departments of the more recent Japanese literature.