96 like the teachings of Zen Buddhism or mountain ascetics. They think that philosophy is a strange field that teaches outlandish ideas. Because of that I experienced these sorts of things. long beards and skinny bodies, like hermits, and one of greats is coming from Tokyo soon to give a talk.” Crowds of people up, I heard that people would accuse me, saying, “Some shyster faking that he is a philosopher has come here claiming the name Inoue Enryō.” ing teacher.” This was because they confused the “tetsu” in “tetsugaku” (philosophy) with the word “testsu,” meaning “iron.” thought that if philosophy underlies all fields of study there their poetry and haiku poems, to appraise artworks and antiques, and in extreme cases, to evaluate their tea ceremony or flower arrangement skills. They would even ask me to read their for-tune from their face or palms. I was perplexed by all of this. On January twenty-first, 1892, Enryō once again set out on a nation-wide lecture tour. One of the students at the time commented on how the Academy director continued to make these rounds. One of the most common misconceptions is that philosophy is Apparently they would say things like “Philosophers have would collect outside my lodgings to witness the spectacle. But, when someone like me, who didn’t look like a hermit, turned In one place, some people referred to me as a “blacksmith-There were also many misunderstandings because people must be nothing I did not know. People would ask me to correct
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