24-11-2020
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a brilliant synthesizing philosophical mind, bringing the East and West together in a manner so original and so deep that such a synthesis as his has rarely been seen.
Mr. Kimura has my Yale professors F. S. C. Northrop’s sweeping philosophic vision and Paul Weis’s deep metaphysical insight, and the practical wisdom of linking East and West together. Through his writing, he uniquely recaptures the quintessentially American wisdom of Emerson and Whitman, which is quite remarkable, considering that he is from Japan, not from the United States.
Yasuhiko Kimura’s distinctiveness lies in bringing his grasp of Eastern cultures, the discipline of a Buddhist monk, and the sophistication of the West’s scientific tradition in to a new illuminating synthesis for our time.