Figure 4: Lecture Tour Days by Year 98 and thirty-nine in 1893, for a total of 390 days—as much as one year and one month’s worth. During this period he lectured in thirty-six cities, three wards, and 230 towns and villages in thirty-two prefec-tures (the unvisited prefectures were mainly Kōshin’etsu, and Hokuriku regions). In the end this painstaking tour of the country brought the attention of the wider public to the ex-istence of the Philosophy Academy. And, with a final donation amount of 3,509.90 yen, Enryō was able to overcome the crisis. Through his tour of the entire country over four years, from Hok-kaidō in the north to Kyūshū in the south, Enryō learned many things. The foremost of these was his heightened awareness of his role as the proprietor of the Philosophy Academy. Secondly, twenty years of efforts toward developing the state and society under the slogan of civilization had passed since the Meiji Restoration, but there were still many places left where things did not differ all that much from the Edo period. Thirdly, he was able to conduct fieldwork to investigate stories of mysterious phenomena in various places. This research made him keenly aware once more that “mysteries” are at the foundation of how people see things. These mysteries are deeply rooted in daily life, menacing people and causing fear. in the Kantō,
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