and the travelers on the path could hear the angry yell of the raging waves in the distance. At the edge of the precipice the our vehicle, too, was rolled. Although the vehicle was badly damaged Enryō was not thrown from it and his life was saved. According to his journals he fell from rick-shaws on several other occasions. Enryō referenced FUKUZAWA Yukichi, a descendant of the Edo pe-riod gentry class, in clearly stating his own position in society, I call society’s scholars “aristocratic,” and I call myself “peasant-like.” In the past Master Fukuzawa appointed himself “a com-peasant class of scholars. As a commoner, Enryō humbled himself to a point below Fukuzawa and described himself as an ordinary everyman scholar. He worked to create relationships with everyday people on a deeper level than Fukuzawa. He described his style as “rural scholarship,” which he defines as follows. If a gentleman is in the countryside, he is called a “rural gentle-tryside, he should be called a “rural scholar.” On the other hand, The early dawn sky was wrapped in rain and dark smoky clouds, wind grew ever more violent, just where the lady Osen once fell, “Rural Scholarship” mon scholar,” but I am one step lower than that, of the poorest man” [an unrefined man], and thus, if a scholar is in the coun-163
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