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Although Taisei has studied a broad array of topics in Indian classical texts such as religious scripture, epics, and tantra, his main interest is in philosophical texts, having written his Ph.D. thesis on the development of arguments over the justification of cognition, the existence of God, and the authority of scripture. In his Hakubi project research, he considers the proof of the eternity of sound by Mīmāṃsā, which is the representative of Brahmanic school. The headstream of Buddhism and other ways of thinking that have since been introduced to Japan can be confirmed by reading Indian classics. In order to clarify the history of thought in classical India, there is a need for basic philological research, such as editing and translating texts based on the Sanskrit manuscripts preserved in libraries within and outside of India. Taisei focuses on a critical edition of an as yet unpublished section of a text of the Mīmāṃsā school.