The Japanese Spirit by Yoshisaburo Okakura: “…Laoism, through the wonderful Tao-teh-king, a small book by Lao-tze himself, but especially through Chwang-tze, a work in ten books by his famous follower Chwang-chow, has exercised considerable influence on our thought for twelve centuries, a word about it may not be out of place before we go on to consider the doctrine of Shakya-muni.”
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi by Fukuzawa Yukichi: “I studied the Zuo Zhuan, the Guoyu, the Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han as a matter of course, and the Classic of Poetry and Book of Documents too, and even odd, interesting works like Laozi and Zhuangzi, hearing my teacher's lectures and studying them myself. [auto-translated]”