[INOUE Tetsujirō: The Philosophy of the Japanese Wang Yangming School. Tokyo: Fuzanbō 1900.] [Rev. eds. 1936, 1945] [Internet archive 1900 / 1936]
1912
石崎東国『陽明学派の人物』、大阪、前川書店
[ISHIZAKI Tōgoku: Figures of the Wang Yangming School. Osaka: Maekawa Shoten 1912.] [Internet archive]
1967
島田虔次『朱子学と陽明学』、東京、岩波書店
[SHIMADA Kenji: The Zhu Xi School and the Wang Yangming School. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 1967.]
1971
安藤英男『日本における陽明学の系譜』、東京、新人物往来社
[ANDŌ Hideo: A Genealogy of the Wang Yangming School in Japan. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha 1971.]
1984
荒木見悟『陽明学の開展と仏教』、東京、研文出版
[ARAKI Kengo: The Development of the Wang Yangming School and Buddhism. Tokyo: Kenbun Shuppan 1984.]
1995
大橋健二『日本陽明学奇蹟の系譜』、東京、叢文社
[ŌHASHI Kenji: The Miraculous Genealogy of the Japanese Wang Yangming School. Tokyo: Sōbunsha 1995.] [Rev. ed. 2006]
1999
大橋健二『良心と至誠の精神史 : 日本陽明学の近現代』、東京、勉誠出版
[ŌHASHI Kenji: A Spiritual History of Conscience and Sincerity: The Modern and Contemporary Era of the Japanese Wang Yangming School. Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan 1999.]
吉田公平『日本における陽明学』、東京、ぺりかん社
[YOSHIDA Kōhei: The Wang Yangming School in Japan. Tokyo: Perikansha 1999.]
2004
小島毅『朱子学と陽明学』、東京、放送大学教育振興会
[KOJIMA Tsuyoshi: The Zhu Xi School and the Wang Yangming School. Tokyo: Hōsōdaigaku Kyōiku Shinkōkai 2004.]
2006
崔在穆『東アジア陽明学の展開』、東京、ぺりかん社
[CHOI Jae-Mok: The Development of the Wang Yangming School in East Asia. Tokyo: Perikansha 2006.]
小島毅『近代日本の陽明学』、東京、講談社
[KOJIMA Tsuyoshi: The Wang Yangming School in Modern Japan. Tokyo: Kōdansha 2006.]
2008
荻生茂博『近代・アジア・陽明学』、東京、ぺりかん社
[OGYŪ Shigehiro: Modernity, Asia and the Wang Yangming School. Tokyo: Perikansha 2008.]
2011
馬淵昌也『東アジアの陽明学 : 接触・流通・変容』、東京、東方書店
[MABUCHI Masaya: The Wang Yangming School in East Asia: Contact, Circulation and Transformation. Tokyo: Tōhō Shoten 2011.]
2013
中純夫『朝鮮の陽明学 : 初期江華学派の研究』、東京、汲古書院
[NAKA Sumio: The Wang Yangming School in Korea: A Study of the Early Kanghwahakp’a School. Tokyo: Kyūkoshoin 2013.]
吉田公平『日本近世の心学思想』、東京、研文出版
[YOSHIDA Kōhei: The Thought of Heartmind Studies in Early Modern Japan. Tokyo: Kenbun Shuppan 2013.]
[TAKETO Fujii: A Study on the Development of Confucianism in the Kaitokudō School: From Eclecticism to the Reconciliation of the Zhu Xi School and the Wang Yangming School. [Place unkown]: Taketo Fujii 2014–2016.]
2016
福田殖『宋元明の朱子学と陽明学』、東京、研文出版
[FUKUDA Shigeru: The Zhu Xi School and the Wang Yangming School in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Tokyo: Kenkyū Shuppan 2016.]
2019
山村奨『近代日本と変容する陽明学』、東京、法政大学出版局
[YAMAMURA Shō: Modern Japan and the Transformation of the Wang Yangming School. Tokyo: Hōsei Daigaku Shuppankyoku 2019.]