Nishida Kitaro and the Kyoto School
Nishida's foundational 1911 book borrowed 'pure experience' directly from the American philosopher William James. The Kyoto School's members, not D. T. Suzuki, wrote the underlying theory Suzuki later popularised abroad — and several of their wartime political writings remain genuinely contested.
Nishida Kitarō, Zen no Kenkyū ('An Inquiry into the Good', 1911)
A twentieth-century Japanese philosophical school that built a systematic Western-style philosophy out of Zen concepts, centred on the idea of 'pure experience'.