Kenryà  Kanamatsu was a Japanese translator, author, and lifelong devotee of Jà Âdo Shinshà «, sometimes called "Shin Buddhism". His seminal work, Naturalness, (written in 1949), was an introduction of Jà Âdo Shinshà « to the Western world.
Born in 1915, in Kyoto, Kanamatsu received his B.A. in philosophy at à Âtani University. A Fulbright scholar at Cornell University and the University of Chicago, he received his doctorate and became a Professor at à Âtani University. A translator as well as an author, Kanamatsu translated the works of Plato into Japanese. In 1971, he published a book on the theology and cosmology of Plato.