TAKAHASHI Kurō, landowner and congregation head representative 6 People say that the point of education is to stimulate interest in each of the students. At Ishiguro’s school, though, Enryō was able to take away more. He gained a deep desire for knowledge, a curiosity about all things. Seeing Enryō’s dedication, trekking to school in the morning alone in heavy snow, we can tell that he was the sort to fully immerse himself in whatever he did. In today’s terms we might call him “inward-looking.” In any case, this early experience with educa-tion would form the basis of Enryō’s illustrious life. According to his study log Enryō studied Chinese classics for more than four years from August 1869 to December 1872 under KIMURA Don’ō of the former ruling family of the Nagaoka fiefdom. Kimura, who was also referred to by the name Donsō, had been dispatched to Edo as a student during the era of the Nagaoka fiefdom. After his return to Nagaoka he acted as principal of the fief school Sōtokukan. At the school they exclusively taught children of the gentry. The se-quence of events is unknown but Kimura ended up living in a house in front of Jikōji. This may have been because so many of the homes in Nagaoka had been burned down during the war. (It is possible that of Jikōji, had extended assistance to the struggling Don’ō). A private school was opened at Jikōji and as many as twenty-five children from the neighborhood came to study. Enryō called the school “Jikōkō,” a play on the words “Jikōji” and “kōkō (school),” and there the students studied Chinese classics under Kimura. In the style of Chinese poetry, Enryō wrote the following. Chinese Classics Studies (2)
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