Editing Senoo Giro (section)

== Secondary Literature in Japanese ==

* Inagaki Masami 稲垣真美 (1974). ''Budda o seoite gaitō e: Seno'o Girō to Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei'' 仏陀を背負いて街頭へ――妹尾義郎と新興仏教青年同盟 [Taking the Buddha on Their Backs and Going to the Streets: Seno'o Girō and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism]. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. {{annotation|The foundational Japanese-language biography of Seno'o and history of the Youth League. Written by the scholar who subsequently edited Seno'o's collected religious writings and co-edited his diaries, it established much of the biographical and documentary framework used by later scholarship, although some of its interpretations—particularly of the prosecution of the League—have been qualified by subsequent researchers.}}

* Matsune Takashi 松根鷹 (1975). ''Seno'o Girō to “Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei”'' 妹尾義郎と「新興仏教青年同盟」 [Seno'o Girō and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism]. Tokyo: San'ichi Shobō. {{annotation|An important critical reconstruction of the Youth League that supplements and at points challenges Inagaki's account, drawing particular attention to internal organizational dynamics, participant testimony, and the circumstances surrounding the repression and dissolution of the movement.}}

* Miwa Zehō 三輪是法 (2011). “Seno'o Girō no Nichiren shinkō: Taishō gonen kara shichinen no nikki o tegakari ni” 妹尾義郎の日蓮信仰――大正五年から七年の日記を手がかりに [Seno'o Girō's Nichiren Faith: Using His Diaries from 1916 to 1918 as a Guide]. ''Tōyō bunka kenkyūjo shohō'' 東洋文化研究所所報 15: 1–17. {{annotation|A close diary-based reconstruction of Seno'o's religious crisis between 1916 and 1918—including his mother's death, his brother's blindness, and his own illness—and his path toward Honda Nisshō and the Tōitsudan, before his later turn toward socialism.}}

* Nakano Kyōtoku 中濃教篤 (1969). “‘Seno'o Girō’ nōto” 「妹尾義郎」ノート [Notes on Seno'o Girō]. ''Gendai shūkyō kenkyūjo shohō'' 現代宗教研究所所報 3: 59–71. {{annotation|An early study of Seno'o by a scholar who subsequently wrote extensively on the intellectual history of the Youth League and modern Nichiren Buddhism.}}

* Ōtani Eiichi 大谷栄一 (2001). ''Kindai Nihon no Nichirenshugi undō'' 近代日本の日蓮主義運動 [The Nichirenist Movement of Modern Japan]. Kyoto: Hōzōkan. {{annotation|A major history of modern Nichirenism that provides the broader religious and institutional setting for Seno'o's formation, including the movements associated with Tanaka Chigaku and Honda Nisshō.}}

* Ōtani Eiichi 大谷栄一 (2008). “Hansen, han-fashizumu no Bukkyō shakai undō: Seno'o Girō to Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei” 反戦・反ファシズムの仏教社会運動――妹尾義郎と新興仏教青年同盟 [An Antiwar, Anti-Fascist Buddhist Social Movement: Seno'o Girō and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism]. In ''Kokka to shūkyō: Shūkyō kara miru kingendai Nihon'' 国家と宗教――宗教から見る近現代日本, vol. 1, edited by Arai Ken and Tanaka Shigeru, 447–81. Kyoto: Hōzōkan. {{annotation|A substantial study of Seno'o and the Youth League as an antiwar and anti-fascist Buddhist social movement, emphasizing the relationship between religious commitments, organization, and political participation.}}

* Ōtani Eiichi 大谷栄一 (2009). “Nakajima Shige no shakaiteki Kirisutokyō to Seno'o Girō no shakaiteki Bukkyō” 中島重の社会的基督教と妹尾義郎の社会的仏教 [Nakajima Shigeru's Social Christianity and Seno'o Girō's Social Buddhism]. ''Shūkyō kenkyū'' 宗教研究 82, no. 4: 963–65. {{annotation|A concise comparative study identifying parallels between Seno'o's “social Buddhism” and Nakajima Shigeru's “social Christianity,” including their critiques of religious individualism and their this-worldly and cooperative social ideals.}}

* Ōtani Eiichi 大谷栄一 (2014). “Nichirenshugi kara Bukkyō shakaishugi e: Seno'o Girō no shisō to undō” 日蓮主義から仏教社会主義へ――妹尾義郎の思想と運動 [From Nichirenism to Buddhist Socialism: Seno'o Girō's Thought and Movement]. In ''Shirīzu Nichiren 4: Kingendai no hokke undō to zaike kyōdan'' シリーズ日蓮4――近現代の法華運動と在家教団, edited by Nishiyama Shigeru, 196–211. Tokyo: Shunjūsha. {{annotation|A synthetic account of Seno'o's intellectual and organizational development from Nichirenism to Buddhist socialism, emphasizing the relationship between changes in his religious thought and his social activism.}}

* Ōtani Eiichi 大谷栄一 (2015). “Seno'o Girō to Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei no hansen, heiwa undō” 妹尾義郎と新興仏教青年同盟の反戦・平和運動 [Seno'o Girō and the Youth League's Antiwar and Peace Movement]. In ''Ajia no shakai sanka Bukkyō: Seikyō kankei no shiza'' アジアの社会参加仏教――政教関係の視座, edited by Sakurai Yoshihide, Togawa Masahiko, and Yano Hidetake, 73–104. Sapporo: Hokkaidō University Press. {{annotation|A detailed study of the antiwar and peace dimensions of Seno'o's thought and the Youth League's activism, placing them within the wider history of socially engaged Buddhism in modern Asia.}}

* Rizaki Kei 理崎啓 (2016). ''Ōyoso no hibi: Seno'o Girō to shūkyō dan'atsu'' 大凡の日々――妹尾義郎と宗教弾圧 [Ordinary Days: Seno'o Girō and Religious Persecution]. Tetsuzandō. {{annotation|A diary-based study concentrating on Seno'o's experience of repression, his 1937 ''tenkō'', and his subsequent religious and political life, including his postwar peace activism.}}

* Shimane Kiyoshi しまねきよし (1978). “Shinkō Bukkyō Seinen Dōmei: Seno'o Girō” 新興仏教青年同盟――妹尾義郎 [The Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism: Seno'o Girō]. In ''Tenkō: Kyōdō kenkyū, kaitei zōho-ban'' 転向――共同研究・改訂増補版, edited by Shisō no Kagaku Kenkyūkai 思想の科学研究会, 349–65. Tokyo: Heibonsha. {{annotation|A study placing Seno'o and the Youth League within the broader history and problematics of political recantation (''tenkō'') in prewar Japan.}}

* Yoshida Kyūichi 吉田久一 (1966). “Seno'o Girō to Bukkyō shakaishugi” 妹尾義郎と仏教社会主義 [Seno'o Girō and Buddhist Socialism]. ''Nihon rekishi'' 日本歴史 212: 139–42. {{annotation|An early scholarly treatment of Seno'o centered on his attempt to formulate a distinctively Buddhist socialism.}}

* Yoshida Shizukuni 吉田静邦 (1979). “Seno'o Girō no shisō to kōdō” 妹尾義郎の思想と行動 [Seno'o Girō's Thought and Action]. ''Bukkyō keizai kenkyū'' 仏教経済研究 8: 95–111. {{annotation|A study of the relationship between Seno'o's Buddhist social thought and his practical political and economic activism.}}

* Yoshida Shizukuni 吉田静邦 (1985). “Fashizumu-ki no nōmin undō to Seno'o Girō (1)” ファシズム期の農民運動と妹尾義郎（一） [Peasant Movements in the Fascist Period and Seno'o Girō (1)]. ''Komazawa joshi tanki daigaku kenkyū kiyō'' 駒沢女子短期大学研究紀要 18: 25–38.

* Yoshida Shizukuni 吉田静邦 (1986). “Fashizumu-ki no nōmin undō to Seno'o Girō (2)” ファシズム期の農民運動と妹尾義郎（二） [Peasant Movements in the Fascist Period and Seno'o Girō (2)]. ''Komazawa joshi tanki daigaku kenkyū kiyō'' 駒沢女子短期大学研究紀要 19: 27–37. {{annotation|Together, Yoshida's two-part study examines Seno'o's engagement with agrarian and tenant-farmer movements and situates his activism within the wider history of prewar peasant organization.}}