Japanese Studies Religion: Religious and Philosophical Texts

67 volume set provides important texts from the Kojiki to folk religion in the Tokugawa period. Texts include village documents, warrior codes, discourses on art and tea ceremony, reports of travelers to Europe as well as the major texts by people like Kūkai, Nichiren, Arai Hakuseki, Motoori Norinaga and others. Some volumes focus on a single text or philosopher; others include many. Each text has notes at the top of the page and furigana in the text itself. Each volume includes commentaries (kaisetsu), bibliographies and a chronology.

20 volumes cover from Kūkai to Bakumatsu. Organized by topic or individual. Each text includes furigana and is translated into modern Japanese at the bottom of the page. Each volume includes commentaries, a chronology and bibliographies.

35 volume set organized by topic – nationalism, Christianity, humanism. Some devoted to an individual, Fukuzawa Yūkichi, Uchimura Kanzō, Yanagida Kunio. Covers from early Meiji to the immediate postwar. Includes commentaries, bibliographies and chronologies.

36 volume set is organized by philosopher. Includes religious, political philosophers and ideologues from both the right and left wing (Marxists, Anarchists), literary and art critics, journalists and historians, most of whom were active from Meiji to WWII. The last six volumes focus on several writers organized by period: Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa. Each volume includes several commentaries, chronology and bibliography in addition to the texts.

24 volume set organized by topic. Edited by major scholars in the field. Focuses on Meiji thought from the opening of Japan to art. Furigana and notes are included for the documents and some documents have commentaries at the end of the volume. The last volume includes a listing of all the commentaries and the documents included in each volume as well as name index.