He was born in Himeji, Japan, in 1889 and died in 1960. Poet, editor and professor of philosophy at various universities in the country. He was Professor of Ethics at Tokyo Imperial University.

Along with Kitaro Nishida and Hajime Tanabe, it is part of the group of thinkers who cared for synthesizing Eastern and Western culture: from ancient Greece to Heidegger, and from Buddhism to contemporary Japanese culture. Anthropology of the landscape is, with his Ethics, one of his most representative and influential works.