 Ueda, who has developed an original philosophy of Zen in relation to Meister Eckhart and Nishida, is the most prominent figure of the third generation. Takeuchi wrote important works on the philosophy of religion from a Shin Buddhist perspective. Tsujimura, who studied under Heidegger as well as under Hisamatsu and Nishitani, has provocatively and influentially written on Heidegger’s thought from a Zen and Kyoto School perspective. Abe Masao (1915–2006), a former student of Hisamatsu’s, was an important representative of the Kyoto School and contributor to inter-religious dialogue in North America, although he is somewhat less well known in Japan itself. If we were to view the Kyoto School as living past its third generation, Ōhashi Ryōsuke (b. 1944), a prolific philosopher in his own right, whose works in both Japanese and German address a broad range of philosophical issues, would undoubtedly count as a central figure of its fourth generation. Other recent affiliates of the School, who could be seen as belonging to its fourth generation, include Hase Shōtō, Horio Tsutomu, Ōmine Akira, Fujita Masakatsu, Mori Tetsurō, Hanaoka (Kawamura) Eiko, Matsumura Hideo, Nakaoka Narifumi, Okada Katsuaki, and Keta Masako. If the School shows promise of living on to future generations, it is with currently active Japanese scholars such as Akitomi Katsuya, Minobe Hitoshi, Itabashi Yūjin, Uehara Mayuko, Inoue Katsuhito, Mine Hideki, Kosaka Kunitsugu, Tanaka Yū, and Tanaka Kyūbun, and as well as with a number of Japanese and non-Japanese philosophers living outside of Japan, some of whom have studied extensively with members of the third and fourth generations of the School.