CHRONOLOGY—
MAJOR EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS, 1919–1997

1919
Born in Tokyo on September 19 as the only son of Kato^[*] Shin'ichi (1885–1974) and [Masuda] Oriko (1897–1949). Shin'ichi, then thirty-four and a medical doctor, was a graduate of the First Higher School and the Medical Faculty of Tokyo Imperial University. Oriko, twenty-two, was a graduate of Saint Maur Girl's School.

1920
AGE 1
His sister, Hisako, was born.

1923–25
AGE 4–6
Briefly attended Saint Maur Kindergarten.

1926–30
AGE 7–11
Attended Tokiwamatsu Primary School in Shibuya Ward (Matsumoto Kenji was his fourth-grade science teacher).

1931
AGE 12
Attended First Tokyo Metropolitan Middle School; soon afterwards, spent an entire year's allowance on the collected works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke^[*] , which—along with the Man'yoshu^[*] in his father's collection—engrossed him.

1935
AGE 16
Failed an entrance examination to the First Higher School during his

fourth year at middle school; summer: went to Shinano Oiwake, where he met the poet Tachihara Michizo^[*] .

1936
AGE 17
March: graduated from middle school; April: entered First Higher School's Science Division in Komaba and began residence in its dormitory (among his teachers were Yanaihara Tadao, Katayama Toshihiko, and Gomi Tomohide; among his schoolmates, Nakamura Shin'ichiro^[*] , Fukunaga Takehiko; Kojima Nobuo, Kubota Keisaku, and Hasegawa Izumi). Joined the Man'yoshu^[*] reading circle formed by fellow students, including Ono^[*] Susumu and Koyama Hiroshi, developed an interest in no^[*] , kabuki, and kyogen^[*] , and frequented the Kabukiza and the Tsukiji Little Theater; played on the school's tennis team from 1936–37.

1937–38
AGE 18–19
Began to publish under the pseudonym Fujisawa Tadashi; became an editor of a school journal and a member of its literary committee.

1939
AGE 20
February: began to publish works in prose and verse such as "Senso^[*] to bungaku to ni kansuru danso^[*] " (Fragmentary thoughts on war and literature); March: graduated from First Higher School; June: published a coterie journal, Gake (Cliff), with Kojima Nobuo and Yanaihara Isaku.

1940
AGE 21
Translated works by Hans Carossa and Rilke and published essays in Gake; enrolled in the Medical Faculty at Tokyo Imperial University while attending classes in the Department of French Literature (among his teachers of French literature were Watanabe Kazuo, Suzuki Shintaro^[*] , and Nakajima Kenzo^[*] ); critically ill for a time with moist pleurisy.

1941
AGE 22
Family moved to Akatsutsumi in Setagaya Ward; frequented the No^[*] Theater at Suidobashi^[*] and on December 8, 1941, watched a bunraku play at the Shimbashi Theater.

1942
AGE 23
Formed the literary group Matinée Poétique with Nakamura Shin'ichiro, Fukunaga Takehiko, Kubota Keisaku, Harada Yoshito, and others.

1943
AGE 24
Graduated from the Medical Faculty at Tokyo Imperial University and started working at Tokyo University Hospital as an unsalaried assistant specializing in hematology. November: published poem "Imoto^[*] ni" (To my little sister) and learned Latin during his daily three-hour commute on the train.

1945
AGE 26
Spring: evacuated along with the Department of Internal Medicine to Ueda, Nagano Prefecture; September: returned to Tokyo and witnessed its devastation; spent several months in Hiroshima as a member of the joint U.S.-Japan medical team to investigate the effects of atomic explosion.

1946
AGE 27
July 1946–January 1947: serialized critical essays in the journal Sedai (Generation) with Nakamura and Fukunaga in the column "Camera Eyes." WORKS ~ March: "Tennosei^[*] o ronzu—Fugorishugi^[*] no gensen" (On the emperor system: the origin of irrationalism) under the pseudonym Arai Sakunosuke; April: "Yokomitsu Riichi" and "Furansu no sayoku sakka" (Left-wing French writers); June: "Tohiteki^[*] bungaku o sare!" (Escapist literature, out you go!); September: "Ankoku o hirake!" (Lift the curtain of darkness!) and "Jan Geno ni tsuite" (On Jean Guéhenno); October: "Hyumanizumu^[*] to shakaishugi" (Humanism and socialism); November: "Yakeato no bigaku" (The aesthetics of burned-down ruins).

1947
AGE 28
July: joined the Kindai Bungaku (modern literature) coterie and began a literary debate with its principal member, Ara Masahito (who was then involved in the "politics vis-à-vis literature" debate with Nakano Shigeharu). Received his first manuscript fees from his contribution to the journal Ningen (Humanity).

WORKS ~ January: "Sarutoru no gokai" (Misunderstandings of Sartre); April: "Machine Poetiku to sono sakuhin ni tsuite" (On the Matinée Poétique group and its works) and "Riarizumu to shosetsu^[*] " (Realism and the novel); May: with Nakamura Shin'ichiro^[*] and Fukunaga Takehiko, coauthored 1946: Bungakuteki kosatsu^[*] (1946: a literary enquiry); May–June: "Valeri^[*] sho^[*] " (In praise of Valéry); June: "Iwayuru dekadansu ni tsuite" (On "decadence"); July: "Amerika ni manabi risei

o motomeru tame no hoho^[*] josetsu" (Methodology for acquiring the American sense of reason) and "Shinko^[*] no seiki to shichinin no senkusha" (Century of faith and seven precursors); August: "No^[*] to kindaigeki no kanosei^[*] " (Possibilities of no^[*] and modern drama) and "Sarutoru to kakumei no tetsugaku" (Sartre and the philosophy of revolution); September: "Kakumei no bungaku to bungaku no kakumei" (Revolutionary literature and literary revolution); November: "Shochoshugiteki^[*] fudo^[*] " (Landscape of symbolism); December: "Nihon bungaku no dento^[*] " (Traditions in Japanese literature).

1948
AGE 29
July: founded the coterie journal Hakobune (The Ark) with Mori Arimasa and Harada Yoshito et al.

WORKS ~ January: "Fujiwara Teika Shui^[*] guso^[*] no shochoshugi^[*] " (Symbolism of Fujiwara Teika's Meager Gleanings ) and "Shinpishugi kaigi" (Interpretation of mysticism); February: "Andore Jido^[*] to bungei hihyo^[*] no mondai" (André Gide and the question of literary criticism) and "Kondiyakku no Kankakuron ni tsuite" (On Condillac's Traité des sensations ); March: "Bodoreeru^[*] ni kansuru kogi^[*] soan^[*] " (Lecture draft on Baudelaire); March–April: "Soseki^[*] ni okeru genjitsu" (Soseki's^[*] idea of reality); April: "Bungei hihyo to shujigaku^[*] " (Literary criticism and rhetoric); June: "Karu^[*] Yasupasu^[*] no seishin byorigaku^[*] " (Karl Jaspers's psychopathology) and "Gendai Furansu bungaku no mondai" (Issues in contemporary French literature); June–August: cotranslated Condillac's Traité des sensations (Kankakuron [2 vols.]); July: coauthored Machine Poetiku shishu^[*] (Poetry collection of Matinée Poétique); September: Dokeshi^[*] no asa no uta (Morning song of a clown [short stories]), Bungaku to genjitsu (Literature and reality), "Buntai ni tsuite" (On literary style), and coauthored "Re-sen tairyo^[*] ichiji shosha^[*] no ketsueki narabi ni zoketsuki^[*] ni oyobosu eikyo^[*] " (Impact of one-time massive x-ray irradiation on blood and hematogenous tissues); October: Gendai Furansu bungaku ron I (On contemporary French literature [vol. 1]); December: "Kodoku no ishiki to hiroba no ishiki" (Idea of solitude and the idea of the plaza).

1949
AGE 30
His mother, Oriko, died in May.

WORKS ~ January–August: serialized his novel Aru hareta hi ni (One fine day [published in a single volume in 1950]). Coauthored "Ke-

tsuekigaku no shimpo 1941–48" (Advancements in hematology 1941–48). February: "Iwayuru Apure-geruha^[*] to wa nani ka" (What is the so-called après-guerre school?) and "Orudasu Hakkusuri no saishinsaku Jikan wa tomaranakereba naranai ni tsuite" (On Aldous Huxley's most recent work Time Must Have a Stop ); March: "Kinoshita Mokutaro^[*] no hoho^[*] ni tsuite" (On the Methodology of Kinoshita Mokutaro) and "Sengo no Furansu eiga" (Postwar French films); July: "Sarutoru no ichizuke" (Positioning Sartre); August: "Watakushi-shosetsu^[*] no eiko-seisui" (Rise and decline of the I-novel); September: "Gendaishi daini geijutsu ron" (Contemporary poetry as second-class art); October: "Shokuminchi bunka ni tsuite" (On colonial culture); November: "Kyosanshugi^[*] to shimpoteki Kirisutosha" (Communism and progressive Christians); December: "Nihongo no unmei" (Destiny of the Japanese language) and "Bungei zasshi no urenai wake" (Why literary magazines don't sell).

1950
AGE 31
February: received his Doctorate in Medicine from Tokyo University. WORKS ~ January: "Sengo no Katorishizumu" (Postwar Catholicism); February: "Nihon no niwa" (Japanese gardens); March: "Ogai^[*] to yogaku^[*] " (Ogai and Western learning) and "Minshushugi bungaku ron" (On democratic literature); April: "Miyagi Otoya cho Kindaiteki ningen " (On Miyagi Otoya's Modern Man ); May: "Engeki no runessansu" (The renaissance of drama); August: Bungaku to wa nani ka (What is literature?), "Genjitsushugi to iu koto no imi" (Meaning of realism), and "Jitsuzonshugi no dento^[*] ni tsuite" (On the traditions of existentialism); September: "Mittsu no shosetsu^[*] ron" (Three views on the novel) and "Jean Guéhenno"; November: coauthored Gendai Furansu bungaku (Contemporary French literature); December: "Nagai Kafu^[*] " and entries on André Malraux, Jean Guéhenno, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Richard Bloch, Ramon Fernandez, Romain Rolland for Furansu bungaku jiten (Dictionary of French literature).

1951
AGE 32
Departed for France as a recipient of a French government scholarship to do medical research at the Institut Pasteur and at the Université de Paris. WORKS ~ January: "Rosserini^[*] no Itaria" (Rossellini's Italy); February: Utsukushii Nihon (Beautiful Japan), "Buruno^[*] Tauto to Nihon" (Bruno Taut and Japan), "Ryunosuke^[*] to hanzokuteki seishin" (Ryunosuke's^[*] an-

ticonventional spirit), "Furansu kokumin no teiko^[*] no rekishi" (History of the French people's resistance), and "Romanshugi^[*] no bungaku undo^[*] " (The romantic movement in literature); March: Teiko^[*] no bungaku (Literature of resistance); April: "Gendai Furansu shijin gaisetsu" (Brief discussions on contemporary French poets) and cotranslated (with Kono^[*] Yoichi) Vercors's Le Silence de la mer and La Marche à l'étoile as Umi no chinmoku (Kono) and Hoshi e no ayumi (Kato^[*] ); May: "Bungaku to hihyo^[*] " (Literature and criticism) and "Shijin no taido—Raina^[*] Maria Riruke no baai" (The poet's attitude: the case of Rainer Maria Rilke); June: "Senso^[*] bungaku ni tsuite" (On war literature), "Engeki no tanjo^[*] " (The birth of plays), and "Bungakusha no seijiteki hatsugen" (Political statements by literary intellectuals); July: "Reisen no unda higeki" (Tragedy created by the Cold War); August: "Katei shosetsu^[*] no mondai" (The question of domestic novels); September: essays on Rabelais, Rousseau, Flaubert, Anatole France, André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean de La Fontaine and others in Furansu bungaku tokuhon (French literature reader) and Gendai shijin ron (On contemporary poets); October: Gendai Furansu bungaku ron (On contemporary French literature).

1952
AGE 33
WORKS ~ January: cotranslated Jean-Paul Sartre's "Qu'est-ce que la litérature?" (Bungaku to wa nani ka) and "Jitsuzonshugisha no kafe^[*] " (The existentialists' café); March: "Pari no ongakukai" (Concerts in Paris); May: coauthored and cotranslated Eryuaru^[*] shishu^[*] (The poetry of [Paul] Eluard); June: "Kakeidaijo^[*] no Jannu Daruku" ([Paul Claudel's] Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher ); July: Teiko^[*] no bunka (Culture of resistance); August: "Furansujin no shinsetsu ni tsuite" (On the kindness of the French people); September: "Nihon kara mita Furansu to Furansu kara mita Nihon" (France as seen from Japan and Japan as seen from France); October: Sengo no Furansu: Watashi no mita Furansu (Postwar France: the France I saw), "Mirano no annaisha" (A guide in Milan), and "Ruo^[*] no geijutsu" (The art of Rouault); November: "Furansu no jutaku^[*] mondai" (Housing problems in France).

1953
AGE 34
WORKS ~ "Zur Situation der modernen japanischen Literatur" and "Etude morphologique des leucocytes dans l'anti-sérum contre la rate myéloide." January: "Yoshida Hidekazu cho Ongakuka no sekai kaisetsu" (Commentary on Yoshida Hidekazu's The Musician's World );

March: "Shopan no tegami" (Letters of Chopin) and "Gaikokugo kyoiku^[*] no mondai ni tsuite" (On foreign-language education); July: "Gosho Heinosuke shi no iken" (Views of Mr. Gosho Heinosuke); August: "Pari no shibai" (The Parisian theater); December: "Pari no Nihonjin" (The Japanese in Paris).

1954
AGE 35
WORKS ~ January: "Aru kanso^[*] : Seiyo^[*] kenbutsu tochu^[*] de kangaeta Nihon bungaku no koto" (Some reflections on Japanese literature during my journey in the West); March: "Furansu no Katorishizumu" (French Catholicism); May: "Suisu no ukiyo-e ten" (Ukiyo-e exhibition in Switzerland); June: "Aruban Beruku Votsekku " (Alban Berg's Wozzeck [by Georg Büchner]); July: "Goya no sobyo^[*] to hanga" (Goya's sketches and prints); October: "Igirisujin no taido" (The attitude of the British) and "Pikaso no saikin no saku" (Recent works by Picasso); December: "Kuroderu^[*] ni tsuite" (On Claudel) and "Pari kara" (From Paris [a letter to Nakano Shigeharu]).

1955
AGE 36
February: returned to Japan and resumed work at Tokyo University Hospital; also worked as a physician at Mitsui Mining Company and as a lecturer of French literature at Meiji University; July–September: served as literary critic for the literary journal Gunzo^[*] .

WORKS ~ January: "Kamyu homon^[*] " (Interviewing Camus); March: "Chehofu^[*]Sakura no sono sono ta" (Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and others); May: "Igirisu to kyosanshugi^[*] " (England and communism); June: "Nihon bunka no zasshusei" (Hybrid nature of Japanese culture); July: "Zasshuteki Nihon bunka no kadai" (Question about the hybrid nature of Japanese culture); September: "Tana:^[*] Bijutsushi no shukuzu" (Turner: art history in epitome) and "Jindo^[*] no eiyu^[*] " (Hero of humanity); October: "Shibungaku no fukko^[*] " (Revival of privatized literature), "Nakamura Minoru cho Miyazawa Kenji " (Nakamura Minoru's Miyazawa Kenji ), "Kaisetsu Ishikawa Jun shoron^[*] " (Commentary: a short discussion of Ishikawa Jun), and "Jan Jirodo^[*] shoron" (Short discussion of Jean Giraudoux); November: "Shozoga^[*] ni tsuite: Fan Aiku o megutte" (On portraits: focusing on Van Eyck); December: Aru ryokosha^[*] no shiso^[*] : Seiyo^[*] kenbutsu shimatsuki (A traveler's thoughts: an account of my journey to the West), "Fukunaga Takehiko," "Shinshu^[*] no tabi kara" (From my trip to Shinshu), and "Vin^[*] no omoide" (Memories of Vienna).

1956
AGE 37
WORKS ~ January–April: serialized the novel Unmei (Destiny); May: "Futsuin senso^[*] to Gurahamu Gurin^[*] " (The French-Indochina war and Graham Greene); June: "Hon'yaku no idai to hisan" (Greatness and pathos of translation); July: "Sakoku no shinri" (Psychology of national seclusion); August: "Shakaishugisha to kyosanshugi^[*] " (Socialists and communism); September: Zasshu bunka: Nihon no chiisana kibo^[*] (Hybrid culture: a small hope for Japan), "Sekai bungaku kara mita Nihon bungaku" (Japanese literature as seen from world literature), and "Kinoshita Junji shoron^[*] " (Short discussion on Kinoshita Junji); October: "Machine Poetikku no kozai^[*] " (Merits and shortcomings of the Matinée Poétique group); November: "Yoroppa^[*] shiso:^[*] Atarashii genjitsu to no taiketsu" (European thought: confronting a new reality); December: "Burehito no shi ni tsuite" (On Brecht's poetry).

1957
AGE 38
WORKS ~ January: "Kenryoku seiji to shakai seigi" (Power politics and social justice); March: "Kindai Nihon no bunmeishiteki ichi" (Modern Japan's position in cultural history); May: Shirarezaru Nihon (The unknown Japan), "Sarutoru to kyosanshugi" (Sartre and communism), and "Seio^[*] no chishikijin to Nihon no chishikijin" (Intellectuals in Western Europe and intellectuals in Japan); June: translated Bosch's Enfants de l'absurde (Warera fujori^[*] no ko); July: "Eiga ni okeru kotenshugi no tanjo^[*] " (The birth of classicism in film), "Gottofurito^[*] Ben to gendai Doitsu no seishin" (Gottfried Benn and the spirit of contemporary Germany), and "Gendai Yoroppa ni okeru hando^[*] no ronri" (The reactionary logic in contemporary Europe); September: "Isha no shigoto to bunshi no shigoto" (The work of a physician and the work of a writer) and "Gureamu Gurin^[*] to Katorishizumu no ichimen" (Graham Greene and an aspect of Catholicism); November: "Shukumei to yobareta eiga" (A film called Destiny [Celui qui doit mourir ]) and "Fuko^[*] hodo shiru koto no konnanna mono wa nai" (Nothing is more difficult than realizing one's misfortune); December: translated Pita^[*] Buryugeru^[*] (Pieter Brueghel).

1958
AGE 39
January–March: served as literary critic for Gunzo^[*] ; September: took part in planning the second Asian-African Writers' Conference held in Tashkent, U.S.S.R., and decided on this occasion to leave the medical profession and devote himself to writing.

WORKS ~ February: "Karu^[*] Baruto to Purotesutantizumu no ronri" (Karl Barth and the logic of Protestantism) and "Gendaishi ni nozomu" (My hopes in contemporary poetry); March: Seiji to bungaku (Politics and literature) and "Bungaku no gainen to chuseiteki^[*] ningen" (Idea of literature and the medieval man); August: Seiyo^[*] sanbi (In praise of the West) and "Gendai no shakai to ningen no mondai" (The question of contemporary society and humankind); November: "Chugoku^[*] shonin^[*] mondai" (On the recognition of China) and "Sorenpo^[*] nikagetsu no tabi" (Two-month trip in the Soviet Union); December: "Sorenpo no insho^[*] " (Impressions of the Soviet Union).

1959
AGE 40
January: returned to Japan via Europe and India; October: participated in the symposium "Seifu no Anpo kaitei koso^[*] o hihan suru" (Criticizing the government's design to revise the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty). WORKS ~ February: Gendai Yoroppa^[*] no seishin (The spirit of contemporary Europe) and "E. M. Fosuta^[*] to hyumanizumu^[*] " (E. M. Forster and humanism) and "Shakaishugi no mittsu no kao" (Three faces of socialism); March: Jinkosai^[*] (Festival of the gods) and "Vin^[*] konjaku" (Vienna past and present); April: "Churitsu^[*] to Anpo joyaku^[*] to Chugoku shonin" (Neutrality, U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, and the recognition of China), "Seio^[*] to wa nani ka" (What does Western Europe mean?), and "Minzokushugi to kokkashugi" (Nationalism and statism); May: "Masu komi wa yoron o tsukuru ka" (Does the mass media create public opinion?), "Nihon no geijutsuteki fudo^[*] " (Japan's artistic landscape), and "Ishikawa Jun oboegaki" (Note on Ishikawa Jun); June: "Kafu^[*] et la littérature française"; August: Ogai^[*] : Iwanami koza^[*] Nihon bungakushi (vol. 15) and a travelogue, Uzubekku Kuroachia Kerara kiko^[*] (Travels in Uzbekistan, Croatia, and Kerala); September: coedited Chishikijin no seisei to yakuwari, Kindai Nihon shisoshi^[*] koza 4 (The formation and role of the intelligentsia, Lectures on modern Japanese thought [vol. 4]) in which he published "Senso^[*] to chishikijin" (War and intellectuals); October: coauthored Yakushiji: Nihon no tera 8 (Yakushiji temple [vol. 8]) and "Bungakuteki jiden no tame no danpen" (Fragmentary piece on literary autobiographies).

1960
AGE 41
February: participated in the symposium "Futatabi Anpo kaitei ni tsuite" (Once again on the revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty);

April–July: became lecturer of modern European thought in the Department of French Literature, Tokyo University, and Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of British Columbia, Canada. WORKS ~ February: "Berunaru^[*] Byuffe to wareware no jidai" (Bernard Buffet and our time) and "Motoori Norinaga oboegaki" (Note on Motoori Norinaga); April: "Geijutsuka no kosei" (The artist's personality); May–July: "Gaikoku bungaku no uketorikata to sengo" (Reception of foreign literature and the postwar era); June: "Anpo joyaku^[*] to chishikijin" (The U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and intellectuals); June–August: "Mono to ningen to shakai" (Things, people, and society), including the segment "Kafu^[*] to iu gensho^[*] " (The Kafu phenomenon); July: Shinran: Jusanseiki^[*] shiso^[*] no ichimen (Shinran: one aspect of thirteenth-century thought); August: "Seijika no mono no kangaekata" (The politicians' way of thinking); September: Futatsu no kyoku no aida de (Between two extremes), Tokyo nikki: Gaikoku no tomo e (Tokyo diary: to my foreign friends), and "Bungakuteki Amerika ron" (Discussion of literary America); December: "Konnichi ni okeru geijutsu kyoiku^[*] no imi to mondai" (The significance of and issues in contemporary art education).

1961
AGE 42
WORKS ~ January: "Soto kara mita Nihon" (Japan as seen from the outside); February: edited Sengo: Gaikokujin no mita Nihon 5 (Postwar era: Japan as seen by foreigners [vol. 5]); May: "Nihon no eigo kyoiku" (English education in Japan); June "Nihonjin no sekaizo^[*] " (The Japanese world view).

1962
AGE 43
WORKS ~ January–February: "Amerika inshoki^[*] " (Impressions of America); May: "Ninen buri no Nihon" (Japan I haven't seen for two years); August: "Nihonjin no gaikokukan" (The Japanese view of the outside world); September:" Gendai Nihon bungaku no jokyo^[*] —Seikatsu no geijutsuka to geijutsu no seikatsuka" (The state of contemporary Japanese literature: the artification of life and the domestication of art) and "Subarashii kuni" (Wonderful country); October: Atama no kaiten o yoku suru dokusho-jutsu (Reading strategies for quick thinking), "Nihon bungaku no kakikae—Gaikoku bungaku no eikyo^[*] to kanren shite" (Rewriting Japanese literature: in connection with the impact of foreign literatures), and "Geijutsuron oboegaki" (Note on art).

1963
AGE 44
WORKS ~ January–December: "Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] no sekai shuyuki^[*] " (Kato Shuichi's^[*] world travels) serialized weekly in the Mainichi gurafu ; May: "Mori Ogai^[*] "; June: "Aspects de la littérature japonaise contemporaine"; October: "Cha no bigaku—Futatsu no kasetsu" (The aesthetics of tea: two assumptions); December: "Kenedi shigo no sekai" (The world after Kennedy's death).

1964
AGE 45
May–July: served as visiting professor at the University of Munich. WORKS ~ "Political Modernization and Mass Media." February: "Gendai no geijutsuteki sozo^[*] " (The creation of contemporary art); May: Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] sekai manyuki^[*] (Kato Shuichi's world wanderings) and "Gengo to bungaku ni tsuite no ron ni tsuite no ron" (About [Nishio Minoru's] "A Discussion of Language and Literature "); August: "Amerika 1964" and "Karuru Kurausu—Jinrui saigo no hibi ni tsuite" (Karl Kraus: On Die letzten Tage der Menschheit ); October: "Zuiso^[*] dokusho" (Random thoughts on reading); November: "Shisendo^[*] shi" (Account of the hall of poetry immortals); December: Umibe no machi nite: kasetsu to iken (At a seaside town: hypotheses and opinions).

1965
AGE 46
WORKS ~ "Japanese Writers and Modernization." January: "Sozoryoku^[*] no yukue—Nihon bunka no kanosei^[*] " (Creativity's whereabouts: the possibility of Japanese culture) and "Nihon bunka no kihonteki kozo^[*] —Genji monogatari emaki ni tsuite" (The fundamental structure of Japanese culture: on The Genji Scrolls ); February: "Kurui gumo mori no harusame" (Wild clouds and spring rain in the woods), "Nomura Manzo^[*] no gei—bunka no fuhensei ni tsuite" (The art of Nomura Manzo: on the universality of culture), and "Betonamu senso^[*] to Nihon" (The Vietnam War and Japan); April: "Nakamoto Kogo^[*] " ([Tominaga] Nakamoto's [Shutsujo^[*] ] kogo^[*] ), "Fukuzawa Yukichi Bunmeiron no gairyaku " (On Fukuzawa Yukichi's A Brief Outline of Civilization ) and "Geijutsu to keishiki—Gendai Furansu no sozoryoku^[*] " (Art and form: the creativity of contemporary France); June: "Gendai Nihongo to shakai" (Contemporary Japanese and society), "Nikko^[*] Toshogu^[*] ron" (On Nikko's^[*] Toshogu), "Yamatogokoro saisetsu" (More on the Japanese spirit), and "Kanada kara mita Betonamu senso^[*] " (The Vietnam War as seen from

Canada); July: "Gendai ni okeru chishiki no keitai" (The configuration of contemporary knowledge); August: "Churitsushugi^[*] no nijunen^[*] " (Twenty years of neutrality), "Gendai shakai ni okeru geijutsuka no yakuwari" (The artist's role in contemporary society), and "Rekishi to bungaku to hihyo^[*] seishin" (History, literature, and the critical spirit).

1966
AGE 47
WORKS ~ February: "Gendai Chugoku^[*] o meguru sobokuna gimon" (Some plain questions about contemporary China); September: "Nihon bungaku no dento^[*] to 'warai' no yoso^[*] " (The Japanese literary tradition and the comic element) and "Chishikijin de aru joken^[*] " (Qualifications of an intellectual); November: "Takeuchi Yoshimi no hihyo sochi^[*] " (The critical apparatus of Takeuchi Yoshimi); November–April 1967: serialized "Hitsuji no uta" in the Asahi Janaru^[*] .

1967
AGE 48
WORKS ~ January: "Tominaga Nakamoto: A Tokugawa Iconoclast"; May: "Betonamu to Zen to Anpo ni tsuite" (On Vietnam, Zen, and the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty); July–December: serialized "Hitsuji no uta" in the Asahi Janaru ; September: Geijutsu ronshu^[*] (Collected essays on art) and "Butsuzo^[*] no yoshiki^[*] " (Styles of Buddhist sculpture); November: "Takamaru Beichu^[*] senso^[*] no ashioto" (War clouds gathering between the United States and China) and "Nihon no bigaku—Sono kozo^[*] ni tsuite" (Design of Japanese aesthetics).

1968
AGE 49
WORKS ~ July: "Tawaraya Sotatsu^[*] "; August: "Yonaoshi kotohajime" (The beginnings of social reform); August–September: Hitsuji no uta: Waga kaiso^[*] (A sheep's song: my reminiscences [2 vols.]); November: "Kotoba to sensha" (Words and tanks).

1969
AGE 50
September 1969–August 1973: served as professor at the Free University of Berlin and director of its East Asian Institute.

WORKS ~ February: "Problèmes des écrivains japonais d'aujourd'hui"; February–March: "Bunka Daikakumei kikigaki" (What I heard about the Cultural Revolution); March: "Beikoku saiho^[*] " (Revisiting the United States) and coedited Geijutsu: Iwanami koza^[*] tetsugaku 14 (Art: Iwanami lectures on philosophy [vol. 14]); July: "Bungaku no shakaiteki koka^[*] "

(The social effects of literature); October: Nihon no uchi to soto (Perspectives on Japan).

1970
AGE 51
WORK ~ April: "Jakometti mata wa junsui geijutsuka" (Giacometti the pure artist).

1971
AGE 52
September: visited China for about three weeks as a member of the Association for Japan-China Cultural Exchange.

WORKS ~ Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society (University of California Press) and "Ein Beitrag zur Methodologie der japanischen Literaturgeschichte." January: "Ongaku no gendai" (The contemporary age of music); March: Shi oyobi shijin (Poetry and poets); May: "kaisetsu" (commentary) for Hayashi Tatsuo chosakushu^[*] I (Selected writings of Hayashi Tatsuo [vol. 1]); June: coedited Gakumon no shiso^[*] : Sengo Nihon shisoshi^[*] taikei 10 (Ideas of learning: a comprehensive collection on postwar Japanese thought [vol. 10]); July: Shimpan sekai man'yuki^[*] (World travels: new edition); September: Bungaku to wa nanika (What is literature? [new ed.]), "Beichu^[*] sekkin—kanso^[*] mittsu" (The U.S.-China rapprochement: three thoughts), and "Oitsuki katei no kozo^[*] ni tsuite—kotoni Nichi Doku kindaishi no baai" (Climbing on the bandwagon [of modernity]—with special reference to modern Japanese and German history); October: "Chugoku^[*] mata wa hansekai" (China: against world trends); November: "Chugoku—futatsu no kao" (Two faces of China).

1972
AGE 53
September 1972–August 1973: spent his sabbatical leave from the Free University of Berlin in Japan.

WORKS ~ January: "Uchikomi to sotokomi no mondai" (Intra-group and inter-group communication), "Ongaku no shiso^[*] " (Ideas in music), and "Waga shisaku waga fudo^[*] " (My meditations, my landscapes); January–February: "Shoshiminteki^[*] hanno^[*] ni tsuite" (On the reactions of the petty bourgeoisie); March: "Shi no mikata—Edo jidai to kindai" (Views on death: the Tokugawa and the modern periods); May: "Edo shiso^[*] no kanosei^[*] to jitsugen" (The possibilities of Edo thought and their realization); August: Chugoku^[*] okan^[*] (A traveler in China); September: Shoshin^[*] dokugo (Gratifying Monologues ) and "Saraba Kawabata Yasunari"

(Goodbye, Kawabata Yasunari); November: "Dogijo^[*] no mondai futatsu" (Two moral questions), "Toshi no kosei" (The individuality of cities), and "Betonamu senso^[*] to heiwa" (Vietnam: war and peace).

1973
AGE 54
January 1973–September 1979: served as a guest editorial writer for the Asahi Shimbun .

WORKS ~ January 1973–August 1974: serialized "Nihon bungakushi josetsu" (Introduction to a history of Japanese literature) in the Asahi Janaru^[*] ; March: Rekishi, Kagaku, Gendai—Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] taidanshu^[*] (History, science, and modernity: conversations of Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] ) and "Kyosho^[*] Tomioka Tessai" (The great master Tomioka Tessai); April: "Etsunan jiaibun" (Personal statement on the tragedy of Vietnam); May: a short-story collection, Maboroshi no bara no machi nite (The illusory city of roses); October: "Sotatsu^[*] no sekai" (The world of [Tawaraya] Sotatsu) and "Fukunaga Takehiko o ronzu" (On Fukunaga Takehiko).

1974
AGE 55
September 1974–August 1976: served as visiting lecturer at Yale University.

WORKS ~ The Japan-China Phenomenon: Conflict or Compatibility? (Paul Norbury Publications) and "Taisho^[*] Democracy as the Pre-Stage for Japanese Militarism." April: "Zeami no senjutsu mata wa nogakuron^[*] " (Zeami's strategy: treatises on No^[*] ) and "Sekaishi no tenkanten to shite no Vetonamu senso^[*] " (The Vietnam War as a transitional point in world history); May: "Gakumon no hokatsusei^[*] to ningen no shutaisei" (The comprehensiveness of knowledge and the subjectivity of man); June: "Hi-Rin Hi-Ko^[*] shichu^[*] " (Personal intrepretation of the anti-Lin [Biao] and anti-Confucius campaigns); July: coauthored Nihon no koten (Japanese classics); September: a new edition of Zasshu bunka—Nihon no chiisana kibo^[*] (Hybrid culture: a small hope for Japan).

1975
AGE 56
April 1975–March 1985: served as professor of Japanese literature and intellectual history at Tokyo's Sophia University.

WORKS ~ Coannotated Arai Hakuseki . February: Nihon bungakushi josetsu jo^[*] (Introduction to a history of Japanese literature [vol. 1]); March 1975–October 1976: wrote a series of seventy-seven essays under the

collective title "Kotoba to ningen" (Words and human beings) in the evening edition of the Asahi Shimbun ; July: "Arai Hakuseki no sekai" (The world of Arai Hakuseki); August: "Yokubo^[*] to iu na no densha to yokubo^[*] to iu na de nai densha" (A Streetcar Named Desire and a streetcar not named desire); October: "Geijutsu to gendai" (Art and the contemporary age); November: "On the Emperor" and "Giryu^[*] zuihitsu" (Random thoughts on Gion Nankai and Yanagisawa Kien); December: Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] shishu^[*] (A poetry collection of Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] ).

1976
AGE 57
WORKS ~ March: Kato Shuichi kashu^[*] (The poetry collection of Kato Shuichi); April: coauthored Rekishi o miru me—Mata wa rekishi ni okeru "nichijo^[*] " no hakken (Viewing history: the discovery of mundanity in history); June: "Bungaku no yogo—Kyogi^[*] no bungaku gainen kara kogi^[*] no bungaku gainen e" (In support of literature: from a narrow to a broad definition of literature); June 1976–July 1979: wrote a series of essays under the collective title "Majimena jodan^[*] " (Serious jokes) in the Mainichi Shimbun ; July: Nihonjin to wa nani ka (What is a Japanese?); October: Genzai no naka no rekishi (History in the present).

1977
AGE 58
September: visited China as a member of the Association for Japan-China Cultural Exchange.

WORKS ~ January–December: "Bungei jihyo^[*] 1977" (Criticism of current works, 1977); February: Kotoba to ningen ; April: "E. H. Noman^[*] —sono ichimen" (E. H. Norman: one aspect of him) and "Koetsu^[*] oboegaki" (Note on [Hon'ami] Koetsu); May–October: coauthored Nihonjin no shiseikan (The Japanese view on life and death [2 vols.]).

1978
AGE 59
April 1978–April 1979: served as a visiting professor at the University of Geneva.

WORKS ~ January 1978–October 1979: serialized "Zoku Nihon bungakushi josetsu" (Introduction to a history of Japanese literature, a sequel) in the Asahi Janaru^[*] ; April: "Koten no imi" (The meaning of classics) and coauthored Chugoku^[*] to tsukiau ho^[*] (How to keep company with China); July: edited (with Ronald P. Dore) Kokusai shimpojiumu—Sengo no Nihon: Tenkanki o mukaete (International symposium—postwar

Japan in the face of transition); October: "Ikkyu^[*] to iu gensho^[*] ;" (The phenomenon of Ikkyu) and Heibonsha began publishing Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] chosakushu^[*] (Selected works of Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] [1978–May 1980; total 15 vols.]).

1979
AGE 60
January 1979–March 1982: served as editorial adviser to the journal Shiso^[*] ; October 1979–April 1980: presented the NHK series Daigaku koza^[*] : Kagaku to bungaku (NHK university lectures: science and literature) and its published version with the same title.

WORKS ~ A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years , trans. David Chibbett (vol. 1; Macmillan and Paul Norbury Publications); coauthored Six Lives Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan (Yale University Press). July: "Dare ga hoshi no sora o mita ka—Shigosen no matsuri o megutte" (Who saw the starry sky: focusing on [Kinoshita Junji's] The Meridian Festival ); August: "Fukunaga Takehiko no shi" (The death of Fukunaga Takehiko); October: "Sarutoru ron izen" (Before discussing Sartre); December: "Ishikawa Jun: Kotoba no chikara" (Ishikawa Jun: the power of words) and coauthored Tenkeiki hachiju^[*] nendai e (Into the eighties as a time of transformation).

1980
AGE 61
Received the seventh Osaragi Jiro^[*] Prize for his two-volume Nihon bungakushi josetsu .

WORKS ~ April: Nihon bungakushi josetsu ge (Introduction to a history of Japanese literature [vol. 2]); July 1980–May 1984: serialized "Sanchujin^[*] kanwa" (Idle talks by a mountain recluse) in the evening edition of the Asahi Shimbun .

1981
AGE 62
September–December: served as visiting professor in the Department of History, Brown University.

WORK ~ May: coauthored Erosu no bigaku (The aesthetics of eroticism) with Ikeda Masuo.

1982
AGE 63
WORKS ~ January 1982–December 1983: serialized "E no naka no onna tachi" (Images of women in painting) for Madamu; October: "Kyokasho^[*] ken'etsu no byori^[*] " (The pathology of textbook censorship).

1983
AGE 64
January–June: served as visiting professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cambridge University, and, October 1983–July 1984, as visiting professor, Seminario di Lingua e Letteratura Giapponese, Università degli Studi di Venezia.

WORKS ~ Vols. 2–3 of A History of Japanese Literature (The Years of Isolation and The Modern Years [Kodansha International]). September: Sanchujin^[*] kanwa (Idle talks by a mountain recluse).

1984
AGE 65
November 1984–June 1985: served as editor-in-chief for Heibonsha daihyakka-jiten (Heibonsha encyclopedia [16 vols.]).

WORKS ~ January–December: serialized "E—Kakusareta imi" (The hidden meaning in painting) for Taiyo^[*] ; April: Jinrui no chiteki isan—Sarutoru (The intellectual heritage for humankind: Sartre) and "Hayashi Tatsuo o omou" (Remembering Hayashi Tatsuo); July: coauthored Nihon bunka no kakureta kata (Hidden forms in Japanese culture) and began serializing "Sekiyo^[*] mogo^[*] " (Untempered utterances) in the evening edition of the Asahi Shimbun .

1985
AGE 66
Participated in various conferences in France and Italy and was named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the government of France.

WORKS ~ January: coedited Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko zenshu^[*] 5 (The collected works of Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko [vol. 5]); March: "Tomioka Tessai"; May: E no naka no onna tachi (Images of women in painting); June: "Nihon bungaku" (Japanese literature).

1986
AGE 67
April–July: served as visiting professor at the Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa del Norte at the Colegio de México.

WORKS ~ January: "Sengo yonjunen^[*] —Nani ga kawari nani ga kawaranakatta ka" (Forty years after the war: what has changed and what hasn't); February: Koten o yomu 23: Ryojin^[*] hisho^[*] (Reading the classics: the dance of dust on the rafters [vol. 23]); July: "Sengo to Nihon" (The postwar period and Japan); December: coauthored Yoroppa^[*] futatsu no mado—Toredo to Venetia (Two windows to Europe—Toledo and Venice) and coedited Dainiji sekai taisen to gendai (The Second World War and the contemporary period).

1987
AGE 68
April: served as visiting professor at Princeton University and, November 1987–March 1988, as the commentator of the NHK program "Nihon: Sono kokoro to katachi" (Japan: its essence and forms).

WORKS ~ February: "Gunkaku no mekanizumu" (The mechanism of military expansion); April: Sekiyo^[*] mogo^[*] 1 (Untempered utterances [vol. 1]) and "Kabuki zatsudan" (Miscellaneous thoughts on kabuki); August: Gendai Nihon shichu^[*] (Personal interpretations of contemporary Japan); October: Sanchujin^[*] kanwa zoho^[*] (Idle talks by a mountain recluse [rev. ed.]). November 1987–March 1988: coauthored 10-vol. series Nihon: Sono kokoro to katachi (Japan: its essence and forms [an edited English translation appeared in 1994 as Japan: Spirit and Form ]).

1988
AGE 69
March–April: served as editor-in-chief of Sekai daihyakka-jiten (World encyclopedia [31 vols.]); April: began serving as a professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and, from October 1988–March 1996, as head of the Tokyo Central Metropolitan Library.

WORKS ~ Coauthored Das klassische Japan . November: edited Watashi no Showa^[*] shi (A personal Showa^[*] history).

1989
AGE 70
January–March: served as Regents' Professor at the University of California, Davis. Also served (1989–91) on the editorial board for Iwanami shoten's multivolume series Nihon kindai shiso^[*] taikei (Comprehensive collection of modern Japanese thought [23 vols.]).

WORKS ~ January: "Meiji shoki no buntai" (Literary style in the early Meiji period) in Nihon kindai shiso taikei 16: Buntai (Comprehensive collection of modern Japanese thought: literary style [vol. 16]), which he coedited; August: Kenpo^[*] wa oshitsukerareta ka (Was the constitution forced upon Japan? [Kyoto]); October: edited Yukawa Hideki chosakushu^[*] 7 (Selected works of Yukawa Hideki [vol. 7]).

1990
AGE 71
WORKS ~ January: Sekiyo mogo 2 (Untempered utterances [vol. 2]); November: Nihongo o kangaeru (Thoughts on the Japanese language [Kyoto]).

1991
AGE 72
January: joined in a public announcement with Oe^[*] Kenzaburo^[*] and other literary figures regarding Japan's role in the Gulf War; October: began to serve on the Yoshida Hidekazu Prize Awards Committee with Yoshida and the composer Takemitsu Toru^[*] ; November: served as commentator for the Public Broadcasting System in a Frontline program on Japanese business practices in the United States.

WORKS ~ "Mechanisms of Ideas: Society, Intellectuals, and Literature in the Postwar Period in Japan," in Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan; April: "Bungaku no koyo^[*] " (The uses of literature) and "Kodai Naijeriya no chokoku^[*] " (Ancient Nigerian sculpture); May: "Hon'yaku koten bungaku shimatsu" (Translating classical literature); September: "Meiji shoki no hon'yaku—Naze nani o ikani yakushita ka" (Translations in the early Meiji period: the whys, whats, and hows) in Nihon kindai shiso^[*] taikei 15: Hon'yaku no shiso (Comprehensive collection of modern Japanese thought: the ideology of translation [vol. 15]), which he coedited; November: "Nakahara Chuya^[*] no Nihongo" (Nakahara Chuya's^[*] Japanese) in Kindai no shijin 10: Nakahara Chuya^[*] (Modern poets: Nakahara Chuya [vol. 10]), which he edited; December: Izakaya no Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] (Kato^[*] Shuichi's^[*] conversations at a tavern [Kyoto]).

1992
AGE 73
April–July: served as guest professor at the Free University of Berlin; April 1992–March 1995: head of the International Museum for Peace at Ritsumeikan University.

WORKS ~ January: "Koto hozon" (Preservation of the ancient capital); February: Sekiyo^[*] mogo^[*] 3 (Untempered utterances [vol. 3]); summer: "Postmodernism and Asia"; November: commentary on Watsuji Tetsuro's^[*]Nihon seishinshi kenkyu^[*] (Study of the spiritual history of Japan) entitled "Sakuhin, hoho^[*] , kanjusei oyobi jidai" (Creative works, methodology, sensibility, and time).

1993
AGE 74
April–August: served as visiting professor at the University of Zurich.

WORKS ~ "Tokyo et le nouvel ordre mondial." January: Gendai sekai o yomu (Interpreting the contemporary world [Kyoto]); March: "Shakaishugi saiho^[*] " (Revisiting socialism); April: "Sabetsu no koku-

saika" (The internationalization of discrimination) and "Reisen no shuen^[*] o do^[*] miru ka" (How to assess the end of the Cold War); June: Izakaya no Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] II (Kato^[*] Shuichi's^[*] conversations at a tavern [vol. 2; Kyoto]); July: edited Saito^[*] Mokichi: Kindai no shijin III with a commentary "Saito^[*] Mokichi no sekai" (The world of Saito Mokichi); August: "Soseki^[*] shoron^[*] " (Short discussion of Soseki).

1994
AGE 75
January: awarded the Asahi Prize; March–April: served as visiting professor at Beijing University and an adviser to the Institute of Japanese Studies at Beijing University.

WORKS ~ Japan: Spirit and Form . January: "Hotta Yoshie shiki" (My private account of Hotta Yoshie); March: Sengo sedai no senso^[*] sekinin (War responsibility of the postwar generation [Kyoto]); June: "Nihon no kokusai 'koken^[*] ' " (Japan's international "contribution") and "Tsuru wa shinazu" (The crane will not die); August: "Shijin keizaigakusha" (Poet and economist); September: Sekiyo^[*] mogo^[*] 4 (Untempered utterances [vol. 4]).

1995
AGE 76
January–March: served as the commentator for the twelve-segment television series on NHK, Ningen Daigaku , in which he gave lectures on Mori Ogai^[*] , Saito^[*] Mokichi, and Kinoshita Mokutaro^[*] ; the May edition of a leading Chinese literary journal, Shijie Wenxue (World literature), was dedicated to Kato^[*] ; November: received the degree of Doctorat Honoris Causa from the Université Stendhal, France.

WORKS ~ May: Tenkanki: Ima to mukashi (Transitional period: past and present [Kyoto]); June: "Masuko Jun'ichi soshite reddo paji^[*] " (Masuko Jun'ichi and the red purge); August: "Minshushugi no gojunen^[*] " (Fifty years of democracy); September: "Taisei no jizoku to danzetsu" (Continuities and discontinuities in the established structure); October: "Seishin no ofuku^[*] undo^[*] " (The revolution of the spirit) and coauthored Gendai Kankoku jijo^[*] (Contemporary Korea [Kyoto]); November: "'Kako no kokufuku' oboegaki" (Some comments on Vergangenheitsbewältigung [overcoming the past]) and coauthored Ajia kenchiku no genzai (Asian architecture today).

1996
AGE 77
March: resigned his position as head of Tokyo Central Metropolitan Library.

WORKS ~ May: Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] Koenshu^[*] I: Dojidai^[*] to wa nani ka (Lectures by Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] : the question of contemporaneity [vol. 1; Kyoto]); August: "Nicchu^[*] kankei no mirai" (The future of Sino-Japanese relations); September: Kato Shuichi Koenshu II: Dento^[*] to gendai (Lectures by Kato Shuichi: tradition and the present [vol. 2, Kyoto]), Nihon wa doko e yuku no ka (Where is Japan heading?), and "Yakushi zatsudan" (Miscellaneous topics on the translation of poetry).

1997
AGE 78
Spring: served as visiting professor at Pomona College, U.S.A.

WORKS ~ A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yoshu^[*] to Modern Times (abridged ed., Curzon Press). March: Hitsuji no uta: sono go (Postscript to A Sheep's Song ); May: coauthored Jidai o yomu (Interpreting the present); July: Sekiyo^[*] mogo^[*] 5 (Untempered utterances [vol. 5]) and "Nakano Shigeharu danpen" (Fragmentary piece on Nakano Shigeharu).

At the time of this compilation, the author's post-1979 books, essays, and other writings have been published in eight volumes under the title Kato Shuichi chosakushu^[*] Dai'niki (Heibonsha, 1996–97), with a ninth volume planned (date unknown), which will bring the selected works to a total of twenty-four volumes (and an appending volume).

Sources

Yano Masakuni, comp., "Kato Shuichi chosho mokuroku—waei taiyaku," Ronkyu^[*] 13 (March 1998): 87–120; "Kato Shuichi nenpuko^[*] ," Ronkyu 11 Bessatsu (February 1991); and four manuscripts that Yano compiled: "Kato Shuichi nenpuko hotei" (1992), "Kato Shuichi nenpuko tsuika" (1994), "Kato Shuichi chosho mokuroku" (1995), and "Kato Shuichi nenpuko tsuika" (1996); "Chosaku nenpu," Kato Shuichi chosakushu , vol. 15 (Heibonsha, 1979), 328–76 and individual volumes in the same fifteen-volume collection (1978–80); individual volumes in Kato Shuichi chosakushu dai'niki (1996–); and Kato's^[*] chronology contained in Heibonsha's advertisement pamphlet for Kato Shuichi chosakushu ; Kokubo Minoru, ed., "Kato Shuichi nenpu," in Showa^[*] bungaku zenshu^[*] (Shogakukan^[*] , 1989), 28:1108–11; "Chosho ichiran," "Shuyo^[*] ronbun ichiran," "Shuyo igaku ronbun ichiran," and "Shuyo gaikokugo ronbun ichiran," in Nihon no uchi to soto , by Kato Shuichi

(Bungei shunju^[*] , 1971), 488–94; private correspondence from Mr. Kato^[*] Ichiko Teiji, Kubota Jun, and Miyoshi Yukio, eds., Nihon bunka sogo^[*] nenpyo^[*] (Iwanami shoten, 1990); Matsubara Shin'ichi, Isoda Koichi^[*] , and Akiyama Shun, Zoho^[*] kaitei sengo Nihon bungakushi/nenpyo (Kodansha^[*] , 1985), 463–529. For a comprehensive list of Kato's^[*] public lectures as well as his participation in symposia and round-table discussions (both zadankai and taidan ) from 1946–88, see Yano Masakuni, comp., "Kato Shuichi^[*] danwa mokuroku oboegaki," Ronkyu^[*] 9 (December 1988): 45–57. For a comprehensive list of Kato's translations, his edited works, and those edited under his supervision (kanshu^[*] ), see Yano, "Kato Shuichi chosho mokuroku—waei taiyaku," 88–95. I am very grateful to Mr. Yano for his time and care in verifying the accuracy of this chronology during the last stages of its compilation. Any errors that remain are mine and mine alone.

In order to suggest the area of Kato's intellectual interest at specific dates, I cite the titles of his works at their first appearance rather than those in new editions or collections such as the Kato^[*] Shuichi^[*] chosakushu^[*] . One example is the much-discussed essay "Zasshuteki Nihon bunka no kadai" (July 1955), whose title was later changed to "Zasshuteki Nihon bunka no kibo^[*] ." For serialized writings in journals or newspaper columns, I record only the collective titles, as in "Kato Shuichi no sekai shuyuki^[*] " (Mainichi gurafu ) or "Kotoba to ningen" and "Sekiyo^[*] mogo^[*] " (Asahi Shimbun ). And with this translation's intended audience in mind, I list major English (but not Chinese, Korean, French, German, or Italian) translations of Kato's works and their publishers. Works with Japanese-language titles in the chronology and following text annotations are published in Tokyo (unless indicated otherwise).