95 days, giving a total of 440 speeches/lectures. And, through the Phi-losophy Academy, more than three hundred committee members (fundraising staff) were dispatched to various locations to enlist sup-porters and ask for donations. The response to his speeches around the country raised his hopes for donations, but the result was only 676.40 yen. Enryō was greatly disappointed, especially seeing as how the newspaper and magazine advertisements alone at the time of the founding ended up garnering more than three thousand yen donated by four hundred people. When we look into the details we can see that this was because, despite the approximately 1,895 yen that had been promised, only one third, 676 yen, had actually been paid. This left a large amount outstanding. In that time period these sorts of outstanding payments were common and it was a problem for all of the private schools, although this is something Enryō had not known. In the case of the Philosophy Academy only one major donor gave more than fifty yen and three gave more than ten, but most gave one yen or one half (i.e. fifty sen). Enryō was forced to painfully reflect on himself, saying, “At the time, I had just graduated from university and did not know anything about the world, so I was rather careless.” As a consequence, in his introduction to the Meiji 24 Philosophy Academy report mentioned above he was forced to write, “I tearfully beg for help from any like-minded gentlemen around the country.” Kaishū continued to watch over Enryō. If we check the date of the meeting in Kaishū’s diary we find that Enryō always met with Kaishū before leaving Tokyo for a lecture tour or after his return. Enryō describes his experience touring as follows.
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