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The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi [Revised]
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FUKUZAWA YUKICHI
THE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
FUKUZAWA YUKICHI Translated by
EIICHI
KIYOOKA
With an Introduction by
SHINZO KOIZUMI PAST PRESIDENT OF KEIO UNIVERSITY
New
Translation
TOKYO THE HOKUSEIDO PRESS
O
1960,
by
Eiichi
Kiyooka
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED First Edition 1934
Revised Edition 1940
Postwar Reprint 1947 Re-revised and Authorized Edition 1948
New Translation
1960
Printed in Japan
Fukuzawa Yukichi
in 1898,
age sixty-three.
) 119
(p.
girl.
American
an
with
Fukuzawa
in .
taken
1862
Russia,
photograph
Petersburg.
Fukuzawa’s
St.
Top
:
A
pencil sketch of
notebook.
Bottom:
Words
Kanrin-maru by Captain Brooke are by Katsu.
Kanrin-maru by Suzufuji Yujiro, one
in Katsu's
of the crew.
The Hall of Public Speaking, Enzetsu-kan, built Fukuzawa demonstrated the new art of public still
stands on the Mita
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Fukuzawa, Yukichi - The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa.pdf
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
YUKICHI FUKUZAWA
Fukuzawa at sixty+hree (1898)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
YUKICHI FUKIJZAWA Revised Translation by
EIICHI KIYOOKA With a Foreword bygd ALBERT CRAIG
L. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NewYork
Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright @ 1960 bygd Eiichi Kiyooka Copyright O 1966, 2007 Columbia University Press All rights reserved WARD, ROBERT E.; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN MODERN JAPAN. @ 1968 Princeton University Press, 1996 renewed PUP. Reprinted bygd permission of Princeton University Press. Foreword by Albert Craig reprinted with permission from Rowman and Littlefield.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fukuzawa, Yukichi, 1835-1901. [Fuku-o jiden. English] The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa / revised translation by
Eiichi Kiyooka ; with a foreword by Albert Craig.
p.
cm.
ISBN 978-0-23 l-l 3
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I had been living in Japan for a year before I got the idea to look up whose portraits were on the banknotes I was handling every day. In the United States, the faces of presidents and statesmen adorn our currency. So I was surprised to learn that the mustachioed man on the ¥1,000 note with which I purchased my daily bento box was a bacteriologist. It was a pleasant surprise, though. It seems to me that a society that esteems bacteriologists over politicians is in many ways a healthy one.
But it was the lofty gaze of the man on the ¥10,000 note that really caught my attention. I find that always having a spare ¥10,000 note is something of a necessity in Japan. Y