Hattori, Nakatsune (or Chuyo)

(1757-1824)

   A late Edo kokugaku scholar and disciple of Motoori, Norinaga. His 1791 work Sandaikyo (treatise on the three great things) strongly influenced Hirata, Atsutane's cosmological work Tamano mihashira (pillar of the power of the spirit) of 1812.