Distinguished modern Japanese Buddhist studies scholar (末木 文美士), professor emeritus, University of Tokyo, formerly director of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto. Specialist in Japanese Buddhist intellectual history, with particular focus on the Heian and Kamakura periods. Major monographs include Nihon bukkyō shi 日本佛教史 (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1992); Heian shoki bukkyō shisō no kenkyū 平安初期佛教思想の研究 (Tokyo: Shunjūsha, 1995); Bukkyō: Kotoba no shisō-shi 佛教──ことばの思想史 (Tokyo: Iwanami, 1996). Contributed the article on Japanese Buddhist bibliography centered on the Tōiki dentō mokuroku 東域傳燈目錄 KR6v0086 to Zàngwài fójiào wénxiàn vol. 7.