I. DEVELOPMENTS IN D. T. SUZUKI RESEARCH 1 II. LIFE AND WORKS: PERIODIZATION 4 (1) Early works. From the 1890s to the 1910s, before he went to the United States, his time residing there, and his professorship at Gakushuin after returning to Japan. 4 (2) English-language writings. The 1920s and 1930s, after he moved to Otani University. 5 (3) Japanese-language writings. From the end of the 1930s until he began to base his activities out of the United States after World War II. 5 (4) Lectures in the United States. Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist (1957), Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (1960), and so on. 5 III. DIVERSITY AND UNITY IN SUZUKI 6 IV. THE NOTION OF “PERSON” IN NIHONTEKI REISEI 10 (1) Japanese-language Writings and Nihonteki reisei 10 (2) The Notion of “Person” in Chapter 2 of Nihonteki reisei 12 (3) The Notion of “Person” in Chapter 5 of Nihonteki reisei 13 V. THE NOTION OF “PERSON” IN RINZAI NO KIHON SHISŌ 15 (1) Thought, Hermeneutics, and Intellectual History 15 (2) The Notion of “Person” 16 (3) A Critical Examination of the Notion of “Person” 21