Editing Ichikawa Hakugen (section)

== Writings ==
A four-volume collected works, 『市川白弦著作集』 (Ichikawa Hakugen Chosaku-shū, The Collected Works of Ichikawa Hakugen), was published posthumously (Kyoto: Hōzōkan [法蔵館], 1993); the selection below follows its citation of original publication dates and venues.

* 「マルクス主義と禅――覚え書」 [Notes on Marxism and Zen]. 『中央仏教』 (June 1930). {{annotation|An early, tentative attempt to read Zen practice alongside Marxist categories, predating the fuller B・A・C synthesis of the 1950s.}}
* 「仏教より見たヘーゲルの弁証法」 [Hegel's Dialectic from the Perspective of Buddhism]. 『現代仏教』 88 (1932). {{annotation|Critiques Hegelian dialectical logic from a Buddhist standpoint, laying groundwork for Ichikawa's later objections to reading Zen and Nishida philosophy through dialectical categories.}}
* 『禅の基本的性格』 [The Fundamental Character of Zen]. Tokyo: Dōbunkan (同文館), 1942. {{annotation|Ichikawa's first book; conspicuously avoids the nationalist rhetoric common in contemporaneous Buddhist writing, though it appeared alongside his more openly wartime-affirming journalism of the same year.}}
* 「禅学刷新の一指標――禅の政治倫理創建のために」 [A Target for Reform in Zen Studies: Toward the Construction of Zen Political Ethics]. 『禅学研究』 39 (June 1946). {{annotation|An early postwar call to rebuild Zen scholarship around explicit political ethics.}}
* 「共産主義思想の展開と仏教」 [Buddhism and the Development of Communist Thought]. In 『現代仏教問題・五講』, edited by Nakajima Bunkyō (中島文孝). Tokyo: Yangu Iisuto Sha, 1949. {{annotation|Situates Buddhist thought in relation to the postwar spread of communist ideas in Japan.}}
* 「禅の孤高性について――禅に対する疑義」 [On the Solitary Aloofness of Zen: Some Doubts about Zen], parts I–II. 『思想』 307, 308 (January–February 1950). {{annotation|The essay that provoked Myōshinji's attempt to remove Ichikawa from the Hanazono faculty; argues that Zen's self-image of detached, "high-minded" enlightenment functioned to excuse institutional silence during the war.}}
* 『般若心経新講』 [New Lectures on the Heart Sutra]. Tokyo: Tōsei Shuppansha (東成出版社), 1951. {{annotation|A doctrinal commentary on the Heart Sutra that already frames prajñā-emptiness in terms of joy, liberation, and social solidarity rather than mere negation.}}
* 「禅の実践について――歴史転換期における批判的試論」 [On Zen Praxis: A Critical Exploratory Essay at a Historical Turning Point]. 『思想』 326 (October 1951). {{annotation|A follow-up to the 1950 "solitary aloofness" essay, further developing the demand that Zen practice be answerable to historical and social conditions.}}
* 「『負わされた現実』の哲学――西谷博士の自衛論について」 [The Philosophy of "Imposed Actuality": On Dr. Nishitani's Argument for Self-Defense]. 『中央公論』 (May 1952). {{annotation|Ichikawa's opening rebuttal in his public exchange with Nishitani Keiji over the postwar peace treaty and Japanese rearmament.}}
* 「西谷教授の再武装論」 [Professor Nishitani's Argument for Rearmament]. 『潮』 (August 1952). {{annotation|Ichikawa's closing statement in the Nishitani debate, reiterating that rearmament served Cold War and capital interests rather than genuine national security. Ives (2009) cites this same essay under the title "Nishitani-kyōju no saibusō-ron" as appearing in ''Shisō'' 58, no. 8 (August 1952); the discrepancy between the two secondary sources over the exact venue has not been resolved.}}
* 『般若経――般若思想の現代への展開』 [The Wisdom Sutras: The Development of the Philosophy of Prajñā for the Contemporary Age]. Kyoto: San'ichi Shobō (三一書房), 1956. {{annotation|Ichikawa's fullest mid-career statement of Buddhist-Anarchist-Communism, grounding it explicitly in Prajñāpāramitā philosophy.}}
* 「絶対無のつまずき――西田幾多郎の場合」 [The Stumbling of Absolute Nothingness: The Case of Nishida Kitarō]. 『思想』 (1959). {{annotation|Ichikawa's central critique of his teacher's teacher, Nishida Kitarō, arguing that Nishida's own logic could have grounded an anarchist ethics but was instead bent to serve the wartime kokutai.}}
* 「仏教と社会正義の問題」 [Buddhism and the Problem of Social Justice]. 『創造』 94–104 (ten installments, 1959–1960). {{annotation|A serialized study connecting Buddhist ethics to concrete questions of social and economic justice.}}
* 「禅・華厳・アナキズム」 [Zen, Kegon, and Anarchism]. 『自由思想』 5 (1961). {{annotation|Argues that Kegon philosophy's "realm of mutual non-obstruction" (事々無礙法界), read correctly, points toward an anarchist rather than authoritarian social vision, contrasting Suzuki Daisetsu's postwar Kegon interpretation with wartime state-affirming readings.}}
* 「日本の政治的宗教――天皇神道と創価学会」 [Japan's Political Religions: Imperial Shinto and Sōka Gakkai]. 『自由』 63–65 (1963). {{annotation|Extends the critique of Buddhist accommodation to state power into a comparative account of postwar Japan's new religious-political formations.}}
* "A Preliminary Conception of Zen Social Ethics," parts I–II. ''Indogaku-Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū'' (印度学仏教学研究) 11, no. 10 (January 1963): 20–31; 13, no. 2 (1965): 12–20. {{annotation|A rare English-language statement of Ichikawa's project, presenting the outlines of a systematic Zen social ethics for an international scholarly audience.}}
* 「普遍的空」 [Universal Emptiness]. 『禅学研究』 55 (July 1966). {{annotation|Develops the concept of emptiness (kū) as a universal, non-sectarian ethical resource rather than a purely Buddhist doctrinal category.}}
* 『禅と現代思想』 [Zen and Contemporary Thought]. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten (徳間書店), 1967. {{annotation|Places classical Zen concepts into direct conversation with contemporary Marxist and existentialist thought.}}
* 『仏教者の戦争責任』 [Buddhists' Responsibility for the War]. Tokyo: Shunjūsha (春秋社), 1970. {{annotation|Ichikawa's landmark work, systematically documenting Buddhist institutional and doctrinal complicity in Japanese wartime imperialism; the primary source for his account of his own "coward's" psychology and its role in his wartime accommodation.}}
* 「日本における仏教社会主義の問題」 [The Problem of Buddhist Socialism in Japan]. In 『仏教者の戦争責任』: 150–176. Tokyo: Shunjūsha, 1970; published in English as "The Problem of Buddhist Socialism in Japan." ''Japanese Religions'' 6, no. 3 (August 1970): 15–37. {{annotation|The chapter in which Ichikawa explicitly proposes "Śūnya-Anarchist-Communism" (S・A・C) as a more precise alternative to the label "Buddhist socialism."}}
* 『日本ファシズム下の宗教』 [Religion under Japanese Fascism]. Tokyo: Enuesu Publishing, 1975. {{annotation|Ichikawa's last book, extending his war-responsibility critique from Zen specifically to Japanese religion under fascism more broadly, and containing his frank admission that he was unsure he would have the courage to resist a renewed war.}}
* 「解放の禅学へ――自伝風に」 [Toward a Liberating Zen Studies: An Autobiographical Approach]. 『思想の科学』 68 (1976). {{annotation|Ichikawa's principal autobiographical essay, written the year he formally left the Myōshinji monastic registry, recounting his childhood, his "cowardice," and the genesis of his social thought.}}