Taro Okamoto, avant-garde artist, 1911-96, was very active in Japan after World War II. Since his death in 1996, an increasing number of studies about Okamoto have been made. While it has been often mentioned that his philosophical background has some influences from Marcel Mauss, Alexandre Kojeve, Georges Bataille and so forth, with whom Okamoto had acquired during his days in Paris between 1930-1940, there has been no study on this matter during the period after World War II. Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki possesses about 400 French books of Okamoto’s old stock, which had been previously kept in his bedside bookshelf at his residence (present Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum) in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. These books had been treasured by Okamoto, were all donated to the museum without any volume missing. Among these 400 French books, we can confirm that the six books authored by Mircea Eliade, have a number of Okamoto’s own underlines and notes. This article has elucidated the Eliade’s influences on Okamoto’s creative works.