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Born June 17, 1870 • near Kanazawa • Japan
Died June 7, 1945 (aged 74) • Kamakura • Japan
Subjects Of Study experience • nothingness
Yamaga Sokō
Japanese military strategist
Inoue Tetsujirō.
Inoue Tetsujirō
Japanese philosopher
Hayashi Razan
Japanese scholar
Watsuji Tetsurō
Japanese philosopher and historian
Kumazawa Banzan
Japanese philosopher
Tanabe Hajime
Japanese philosopher
Inoue Enryō
Japanese philosopher
Hatano Seiichi
Japanese scholar
Nishi Amane.
Nishi Amane
Japanese philosopher
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
British-born American writer, philosopher, and lecturer
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
Shinran
Japanese Buddhist philosopher
Itō Jinsai
Japanese scholar
Hakuin
Buddhist priest
D.T. Suzuki
Japanese Buddhist scholar
Takuan Sōhō
Japanese priest
Tanaka Ōdō
Japanese philosopher
Muro Kyūsō
Japanese scholar
Bunsei
Japanese artist
Miura Baien
Japanese economist and philosopher

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