 We appear to be at a turning point in the history of the Kyoto School, as is reflected in current retrospective attempts to define it. With Ueda’s and then Hase’s retirements from Kyoto University, on the one hand, and with the creation in 1996 of a Department of the History of Japanese Philosophy at Kyoto University (see the website listed below) under the head of Fujita Masakatsu and now Uehara Mayuko on the other, the Kyoto School is becoming as much an object of scholarship as it is a living tradition. However, as with most schools of philosophy, the line between critical scholarship and creative development is hardly a clear one, and in practice the retrospective study of the Kyoto School often blends together with its further unfolding as a still vibrant school of thought.