1. Masahiro Morioka (1958)

Japanese Philosopher

Masahiro Morioka is a Japanese philosopher who has contributed to the fields of philosophy of life bioethics gender studies media theory and civilization studies. He is a professor of philosophy...

2. Motoori Norinaga (1730)

Japanese Philosopher

Motoori Norinaga was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period. He is probably the best known and most prominent of all scholars in this tradition.

3. Hagiwara Hiromichi (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Hagiwara Hiromichi was a scholar of literature philology and nativist studies as well as an author translator and poet active in late-Edo period Japan. He is best known for the...

4. Kamo no Mabuchi (1697)

Japanese Philosopher

Kamo no Mabuchi was a Japanese poet and philologist of the Edo period. Mabuchi conducted research into the spirit of ancient Japan through his studies of the Man'yōshū and other...

5. Takamaro Shigaraki (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Takamaro Shigaraki is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher. Shigaraki is widely regarded as one of the most influential Buddhologists of the Jōdo Shinshū in the 20th century. Shigaraki was born in...

6. Ninomiya Sontoku (1787)

Japanese Philosopher

Ninomiya Sontoku born Ninomiya Kinjirō was a prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader philosopher moralist and economist.

7. Miura Baien (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Miura Baien was a Japanese philosopher of the Tokugawa era. A scholar often qualified as prolific original thinker in economy interested in epistemology he studied nature in a methodical way.

8. Nakai Riken (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Nakai Riken was a leading academic in the Kaitokudo academy tradition of scholarship. He was the younger son of Nakai Shuan one of the Kaitokudo's two founding leaders and was...

9. Hosoi Heishu (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Hosoi Heishu was a Japanese teacher of Confucian thought during the Edo Period. He belonged to the eclectic school of Confucian philosophy and his thought can be considered as the...

10. Masaharu Taniguchi (1893)

Japanese Philosopher

Masaharu Taniguchi was a Japanese New Thought leader founder of Seicho-no-ie. He began studying English literature at the University of Waseda Tokyo. In parallel he also studied the works of...

11. Tōten Miyazaki (1871)

Japanese Philosopher

Tōten Miyazaki or Torazō Miyazaki was a Japanese philosopher who aided and supported Sun Yat-sen during the Xinhai Revolution. While Sun was in Japan he assisted Sun in his travels...

12. Sadayoshi Fukuda (1917)

Japanese Philosopher

Sadayoshi Fukuda was a Japanese social philosopher and critic.

13. Miyoshi Kiyotsura (1970)

Japanese Philosopher

Miyoshi Kiyotsura was a Japanese scholar-statesman who was very inspired by Chinese classical learning but very antagonistic to Buddhism.

14. Kumazawa Banzan (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Kumazawa Banzan was an adherent of a branch of Neo-Confucianism called Wang Yangming Studies Japanese: Yōmeigaku: 陽明学 who lived during the early Edo period. His childhood name was Sashichirō his...

15. George Ohsawa (1893)

Japanese Philosopher

George Ohsawa born Yukikazu Sakurazawa was the founder of the Macrobiotic diet and philosophy. When living in Europe he went by the pen names of Musagendo Sakurazawa Nyoiti Sakurazawa and...

16. Takeshi Umehara (1925)

Japanese Philosopher

Takeshi Umehara was born in Miyagi Prefecture in Tōhoku and graduated from the philosophical faculty of Kyoto University in 1948. He taught philosophy at Ritsumeikan University and was subsequently appointed...

17. Aizawa Seishisai (1782)

Japanese Philosopher

Aizawa Seishisai born Aizawa Yasushi was a Japanese nationalist thinker of the Mito school during the late shogunate period. In 1799 he became involved in the compilation of the Dai...

18. Ikki Kita (1883)

Japanese Philosopher

Ikki Kita ). was a Japanese author intellectual and a political philosopher who was active in early-Shōwa period Japan. A harsh critic of the Emperor system and the Meiji constitution...

19. Muro Kyūsō (1658)

Japanese Philosopher

Muro Kyūsō or Muro Naokiyo was a Neo-Confucian scholar and an official of the Tokugawa shogunate during the rule of Tokugawa Yoshimune. Muro was responsible for the reintroduction of...

20. Ando Shoeki (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Andō Shōeki was a Japanese philosopher of the 18th century. He rejected much of the Buddhist and Confucian thinking prevailing in Edo period Japan. He also opposed feudalism in the...

21. Dōgen (1200)

Japanese Philosopher

Dōgen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto.

22. Bernard Ryosuke Inagaki (1928)

Japanese Philosopher

Bernard Ryosuke Inagaki is a Japanese philosopher and renowned scholar of Thomas Aquinas. He has written extensively on medieval philosophy scholastic philosophy and philosophy of law; while he is known...

23. Menzan Zuihō (1683)

Japanese Philosopher

Menzan Zuihō was a Japanese Sōtō Zen scholar and abbot of the Zenjo-ji and Kuin-ji temples active during the Tokugawa era. Born in Ueki Kyushu Menzan was the most influential...

24. Yasuhiko Kimura (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a mystic author and lecturer. He is an integral philosopher focusing on integrating spiritual philosophy and science. The books he has authored include The Book of...

25. Yoichiro Murakami (1936)

Japanese Philosopher

Yoichiro Murakami born in Tokyo Japan on September 9 1936 is a Japanese scholar. He specializes in the areas of history of science and philosophy of science. Murakami studied at...

26. Tsunashima Ryōsen (1873)

Japanese Philosopher

Tsunashima Ryōsen was a Japanese author and philosopher. He was a graduate of Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō. He was originally a rationalist and then became a Christian. He is buried in...

27. Shunpei Ueyama (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Ueyama Shunpei was a Japanese philosopher associated with the postwar Kyoto School. He graduated in philosophy from Kyoto University in 1943 and trained in a kamikaze human torpedo squad. His...

28. Yasuo Yuasa (1925)

Japanese Philosopher

Yasuo Yuasa was a Japanese philosopher of religion. Yuasa is known for his works on the theory of the body in Western and Asian philosophy and for his teaching. He...

29. Hajime Nakamura (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Hajime Nakamura was a Japanese academic of Vedic Hindu and Buddhist scriptures.

30. Shin'ichi Hisamatsu (1889)

Japanese Philosopher

Shin'ichi Hisamatsu was a philosopher Zen Buddhist scholar and Japanese tea ceremony master. He was also a professor at Kyoto University and received an honorary doctoral degree from Harvard University.

31. Hajime Tanabe (1889)

Japanese Philosopher

Hajime Tanabe was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School. In 1947 he became a member of the Japan Academy in 1950 he received the Order of Cultural Merit and...

32. Kuroda Kan'ichi (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Kuroda Kan'ichi was a 20th-century Japanese philosopher and social theorist. Born in Fuchū Tokyo as the son of a doctor he began studying Marxist philosophy at the age of twenty...

33. Kaneko Daiei (1881)

Japanese Philosopher

Kaneko Daiei was a Japanese Buddhist philosopher of the early 20th century. He was born at to the priest of Saiken-ji a Shin Buddhist temple in Jōetsu Niigata Prefecture. He...

34. Raphael von Koeber (1848)

Japanese Philosopher

Raphael von Koeber was a notable German-Russian teacher of philosophy at the Tokyo Imperial University in Japan.

35. Inoue Enryō (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Inoue Enryō Japanese Buddhist philosopher educator and nationalist; one of the most influential Buddhists of the Meiji era.

36. Itsuo Tsuda (1914)

Japanese Philosopher

Itsuo Tsuda was a Japanese philosopher and a practitioner and teacher of Aikido and Seitai. Tsuda was born in Japanese-ruled Korea. When he was 16 years old he defied his...

37. Tomonaga Sanjūrō (1871)

Japanese Philosopher

Tomonaga Sanjūrō was a Japanese philosopher and a renowned professor emeritus of the Medieval Renaissance Early Modern and Kantian philosophy at the University of Kyoto in early 20th century. He...

38. Tomonobu Imamichi (1922)

Japanese Philosopher

Tomonobu Imamichi was a Japanese philosopher who studied Chinese philosophy.

39. Yamaga Sokō (1622)

Japanese Philosopher

Yamaga Sokō was a Japanese philosopher and strategist during the Tokugawa shogunate. He was a Confucian scholar and applied Confucius' idea of the superior man to the samurai class of...

40. Tetsuro Watsuji (1889)

Japanese Philosopher

Tetsuro Watsuji was a Japanese moral philosopher cultural historian and intellectual historian.

41. Seiichi Hatano (1877)

Japanese Philosopher

Seiichi Hatano was a Japanese philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of religion dealing mostly with eastern religion but also western philosophical thoughts in theological aspects of...

42. Inoue Tetsujirō (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Inoue Tetsujirō was a Japanese philosopher who condemned Christianity as incompatible with Japanese culture and considered its followers inherently disloyal to Japan. He compiled A Dictionary of Philosophy which was...

43. Toju Nakae (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Toju Nakae was a Japanese Confucian philosopher known as the sage of Ōmi. Nakae was a feudal retainer who lived during the Tokugawa shogunate. He taught that the highest virtue...

44. Hanawa Hokiichi (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Hanawa Hokiichi was a Japanese famous blind scholar of the Edo period. Hokiichi became blind when he was 7 years old. He learned history literature medical science and jurisprudence from...

45. Yamazaki Ansai (1619)

Japanese Philosopher

Yamazaki Ansai was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began his career as a Buddhist monk but eventually came to follow the teachings of Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi. He combined Neo-Confucian...

46. Shizuteru Ueda (Unknow)

Japanese Philosopher

Shizuteru Ueda is a Japanese philosopher specializing in philosophy of religion. The son of a Buddhist priest he studied philosophy at Kyoto University where his mentor Keiji Nishitani oriented his...

47. Hayashi Gahō (1618)

Japanese Philosopher

Hayashi Gahō also known as Hayashi Shunsai was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period....

48. Hayashi Hōkō (1644)

Japanese Philosopher

Hayashi Hōkō also known as Hayashi Nobutatsu was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period.

49. Hayashi Razan (1583)

Japanese Philosopher

Hayashi Razan also known as Hayashi Dōshun was a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher serving as a tutor and an advisor to the first four shoguns of the Tokugawa bakufu. He is...

50. Hayashi Ryūkō (1681)

Japanese Philosopher

Hayashi Ryūkō was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period. He was a member of...