Shigetane Suzuki

was a Japanese kokugakusha and historian. His kokugaku pen name was .

Biography Suzuki Shigetane was the fifth son of , the hereditary head of a small village in Awaji Province. He studied kokugaku with his father from an early age, and continued his studies even after he moved to Osaka and later Kobe to work as an apprentice.

Suzuki gradually came to disagree with the Hirata school, and by 1857 he was in conflict with Atsutane's successor Hirata Kanetane.

At the time he was murdered, Suzuki had not finished the Nihonshoki-den and had only reached as far as the 15th volume. Suzuki's draft of the manuscript was completed with remarkable speed and contains almost no errors or omissions. comments that if Suzuki had not been killed, his completed work would likely have compared favorably even with Motoori Norinaga's great Kojiki-den. The 15 completed volumes of the Nihonshoki-den show Suzuki's simple and straightforward interpretation of the text.