ABSTRACT

Shin’ichi Hisamatsu (1889-1980), a member of the Kyoto School and disciple of Kitaro Nishida, was a leading Zen philosopher of modern Japan. In 1958, as part of his comparative research into Eastern and Western religion and philosophy, he lectured extensively throughout the United States. On his way back to Japan, he visited with a number of prominent European thinkers for a series of conversations on Zen and Western thought. Among his interlocutors was C.G.Jung. Their conversation took place at Jung’s home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, on 16 May 1958. Also present were interpreter Koichi Tsujimura, a student of Martin Heidegger’s, and Aniela Jaffé, Jung’s private secretary, who later compiled his autobiography.