Editing Senoo Giro (section)

== Contemporary and Participant Sources ==

=== Contemporary Documents ===

* Kankichi Saiji 神吉斎爾 (1932 or 1933). “Shinkō Bukkyō no gokai o toku” 新興仏教の誤解をとく [Clearing Up Misunderstandings of Revitalized Buddhism]. Tokyo: Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei. {{annotation|A contemporary League publication responding to criticism and misunderstanding of Revitalized Buddhism, useful for reconstructing how the movement represented and defended itself publicly.}}

* Naimushō Keihokyoku Hoanka 内務省警保局保安課. ''Tokkō gaiji geppō'' 特高外事月報 [Special Higher Police and Foreign Affairs Monthly Report]. Tokyo: Naimushō Keihokyoku Hoanka. Issues cited: June 1936 and October 1937. {{annotation|Contemporary Special Higher Police reports documenting official surveillance of Seno'o, the Youth League, and related political activity immediately before and during the repression of 1936–37.}}

* Naimushō Keihokyoku Hoanka 内務省警保局保安課. ''Tokkō geppō'' 特高月報 [Special Higher Police Monthly Report]. Tokyo: Naimushō Keihokyoku Hoanka. Issue cited: November 1936. {{annotation|A contemporary Special Higher Police report documenting official surveillance of Seno'o, the Youth League, and related political activity shortly before Seno'o's arrest.}}

* Ogata Hiroshi 緒方浩 (1939). ''Bukkyō to shakai undō: Shu to shite Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei ni tsuite'' 仏教と社会運動――主として新興仏教青年同盟に就いて [Buddhism and Social Movements: Mainly Concerning the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism]. ''Shisō kenkyū shiryō tokushū'' 思想研究資料特輯, no. 52. Tokyo: Shihōshō Keijikyoku. Reprinted in ''Shakai mondai shiryō sōsho'' 社会問題資料叢書, ser. 1. Kyoto: Tōyō Bunka-sha, 1972. {{annotation|An extensive Justice Ministry study of Seno'o and the Youth League based on materials assembled during the investigation and prosecution. An indispensable source for the state's case against the movement, but one whose characterization of the League as revolutionary and subversive must be read in the context of its institutional and prosecutorial origins.}}

* Shihōshō Keijikyoku 司法省刑事局 (1938). “Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei no kessei keika to sono honshitsu” 新興仏教青年同盟の結成経過とその本質 [The Formation and Essential Character of the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism]. ''Shisō shiryō panfuretto'' 思想資料パンフレット, no. 3. Tokyo: Shihōshō Keijikyoku. {{annotation|A Justice Ministry account of the League produced during the repression, documenting the state's reconstruction of its formation, ideology, organization, and political activities. As a prosecutorial source, its descriptions and interpretations require comparison with League documents, diaries, and participant testimony.}}

=== Participant and Family Retrospectives ===

* Hayashi Reihō 林霊法 (1976). ''Seno'o Girō to Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei: Shakaishugi to Bukkyō no tachiba'' 妹尾義郎と新興仏教青年同盟――社会主義と仏教の立場 [Seno'o Girō and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism: The Standpoint of Socialism and Buddhism]. Tokyo: Hyakkaen. {{annotation|A retrospective account by a leading Youth League activist who became acting chairman after Seno'o's arrest, providing an important participant perspective on the League's relationship between Buddhism and socialism and on its organizational history.}}

* Mibu Shōjun 壬生照順 (1978). “Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei jiken” 新興仏教青年同盟事件 [The Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism Incident]. In ''Shūkyō dan'atsu o kataru'' 宗教弾圧を語る [Speaking about Religious Repression], edited by Koike Kenji 小池健治, Nishikawa Shigenori 西川重則, and Murakami Shigeyoshi 村上重良. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. {{annotation|A participant's retrospective account of the repression of the Youth League, valuable particularly for comparison with contemporary police and Justice Ministry records.}}

* Mibu Shōjun 壬生照順 and Nakano Kyōtoku 中濃教篤 (1959). ''Shinkōsha no teikō: Shūkyō heiwa undō no rekishi'' 信仰者の抵抗――宗教平和運動の歴史 [Resistance of Believers: A History of the Religious Peace Movement]. Tokyo: Seishin Shobō. {{annotation|An early postwar account by figures closely connected with the history of progressive Buddhist and religious peace movements, providing an important participant perspective on Buddhist resistance, the Youth League, and the prewar repression.}}

* ''Seno'o Girō Nikki Geppō'' 妹尾義郎日記月報 (nos. 1–7, June 1974–January 1975). {{annotation|Supplements issued with the publication of Seno'o's diaries, containing reminiscences and essays by family members, former Youth League activists, and other associates. Contributors include Matsune Takashi, Eguchi Nobuyori, Matsuura Takeo, Oda Ritsuko, Seno'o Tetsutarō, Takada Shigeyoshi, and others. The supplements provide valuable retrospective testimony on Seno'o's family life, religious development, League activism, tenant disputes, arrest, and ''tenkō''.}}