Thanks, no, I hadn’t heard of Kakuzo. It’s well documented that Heidegger had substantive exchanges with Japanese philosophers of the Kyoto School. Some scholars have argued that there was far more Buddhist/Taoist influence on Heidegger than he acknowledged.
WHOA!! OK, the plot thickens. I knew that the only Japanese influence Heidegger actually acknowledged was via Count Kuki, named as his interlocutor in “Conversation with a Japanese.”
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So it turns out that Count Kuki was rumored to be the illegitimate son of Kakuzo; and, at any rate, regarded him as his de facto father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shūzō_Kuki
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The Zen-influenced “Zippy the Pinhead” comic strip did a great parody of Heidegger’s “Conversation with a Japanese.” I can’t find it atm…
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