Philosopher Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945) appears in a German 2002 calendar featuring the world's great thinkers, officials in the city where he was born said Wednesday.
A photograph of Nishida, taken when he was in his 30s, and a German translation of part of his 1937 discourse entitled "Ronri to Seimei" ("Logic and Life") are printed on the June page of the calendar, published by Parerga, Kanazawa officials said.
Nishida, who died in June 1945, is considered Japan's most influential 20th-century philosopher.
"Nishida's works have been translated into German since before World War II," Hiroshi Asami, a scholar of Nishida's works, said.
"To be distinguished in the calendar as one of the noted philosophers of the modern age is proof of Germany's admiration for Nishida," the Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University professor said.
Nishida, a former professor at Kyoto University, strove to assimilate Western philosophy and methodology with the traditions of Buddhist thought. His works are recognized as the first truly original Japanese philosophy of the modern period.