Kitaro Nishida

Kitarō Nishida
Born	(1870-05-19)May 19, 1870 Unokema, Ishikawa, Japan
Died	June 7, 1945(1945-06-07) (aged 75) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Japanese philosophy
School	Kyoto School
Institutions	Kyoto Imperial University
Main interests	Metaphysics, Aesthetics
Notable ideas	Logic of basho absolute nothingness[1]

Kitarō Nishida (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō, May 19,^[2] 1870 – June 7, 1945) was a Japanese moral philosopher, philosopher of mathematics and science, and religious scholar. He was the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from the University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 1894 with a degree in philosophy. He was named professor of the Fourth Higher School in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1899 and later became professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. Nishida retired in 1927. In 1940, he was awarded the Order of Culture (文化勲章, bunka kunshō). He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology (千葉工業大学) from 1940.

Nishida Kitarō died at the age of 75 of a renal infection. His cremated remains were divided in three and buried at different locations. Part of his remains were buried in the Nishida family grave in his birthplace Unoke, Ishikawa. A second grave can be found at Tōkei-ji Temple in Kamakura, where his friend D. T. Suzuki organized Nishida's funeral and was later also buried in the adjacent plot. Nishida's third grave is at Reiun'in (霊雲院, Reiun'in), a temple in the Myōshin-ji compound in Kyoto.^[3]