The 20th century folklorist, Shinobu Orikuchi, student of the great Japanese folklore scholar, Kunio Yanagita, was the first to bring the ancient concept of ‘marebito’ to modern attention.
Hiroaki Inami, a blogger and professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo, uses the term "post-monotheism" to describe the religious viewpoints of the writers D. H. Lawrence and Shinobu Orikuchi.