Kano Kokichi was a philosopher and educator of the Meiji to early Showa eras. He served as principal of the First Higher School and as the first dean of the College of Letters of Kyoto Imperial University, and is also known for reappraising the Edo-period thinker Ando Shoeki.
In 1936 he examined the script and content of the Takeuchi Documents in detail in a paper and criticized them as forgeries made in modern times. The paper is regarded as the representative scholarly examination of the documents.
