Dr. Hosekei Shinichi Hisamatsu (1889–1980) was a philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, and Japanese tea ceremony (sadō or chadō, 茶道, "the way of tea") master. He was also a professor at Kyoto University and received an honorary doctoral degree from Harvard University.
He was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. He entered the Kyoto University in 1912 and studied philosophy with Dr. Kitaro Nishida, who was the most prominent philosopher in Japan and the a...
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Dr. Hosekei Shinichi Hisamatsu (1889–1980) was a philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, and Japanese tea ceremony (sadō or chadō, 茶道, "the way of tea") master. He was also a professor at Kyoto University and received an honorary doctoral degree from Harvard University.
He was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. He entered the Kyoto University in 1912 and studied philosophy with Dr. Kitaro Nishida, who was the most prominent philosopher in Japan and the author of An Inquiry into the Good. With Nishida’s recommendation, Shinichi Hisamatsu joined the Rinzai Zen monastery at Myoshinji temple in Kyoto in 1915 and studied Zen Buddhism with Zen Master Shosan Ikegami. After his monastic life at Myoshinji temple, he established his original philosophical view, which consists of both Eastern (mainly, Zen Buddhism) and Western philosophy. Shortly after that, Hisamatsu received a doctorate degree from the Kyoto University.
Between 1943 and 1949, he taught Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Kyoto...
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