 The name “Kyoto School,” in fact, originated from without; or, more precisely speaking, it originated from the fringes of the School itself. Tosaka Jun (1900–1945), a student of Nishida and Tanabe, coined the expression in 1932 in reference to Nishida, Tanabe and Miki Kiyoshi (1897–1945) as purportedly representative of the epitome of “bourgeois philosophy in Japan” (see Heisig 2001, 4). Tosaka’s own developing thought had an explicitly materialist and Marxist orientation, and in his article he criticized the School as promulgating a bourgeois idealism that ignores material historical conditions and issues of social praxis. Tosaka’s critique had an impact on the subsequent development of the Kyoto School’s philosophies, and ironically Tosaka himself is today considered by some to belong, together with Miki, to the “left wing” of the Kyoto School (see Hattori 2004).