 Ōhashi Ryōsuke’s thesis, advanced already in his landmark German anthology, Die Philosophie der Kyōto-Schule (1990, revised edition 2012; see also Ōhashi and Akitomi 2018), is that the Kyoto School should be understood as a group of thinkers involved in a pluralistic yet cooperative and sustained attempt to think on the basis of an idea of “nothingness” or “absolute nothingness.” This distinguishes their thought from that of traditional Western onto-logy based on the concept of “being.” With this definition in mind, Ōhashi lists the central members of the Kyoto School according to generation as follows: Nishida and Tanabe make up the first generation; Hisamatsu, Nishitani, Kōsaka Masaaki (1900–1969), Shimomura Toratarō (1900–1995), Kōyama Iwao (1905–1993), and Suzuki Shigetaka (1907–1988) make up the second generation; and Takeuchi Yoshinori (1913–2002), Tsujimura Kōichi (1922–2010), and Ueda Shizuteru make up the third generation. Elsewhere he also suggests that the psychologist Kimura Bin (b. 1931) could be considered part of the third generation of the School, particularly if we shift the criterion of definition from interpersonal relations to a genealogy of thought (Ōhashi 2004, 9).