Figure 7: Days of Lecturing Per Year Enryō published the diaries of his Japan-wide lecture tours as the fifteen-volume “South-by-Boat North-on-Horse” Collection (volume six-teen was left unfinished due to his death). According to these works he traveled to sixty cities and 2,198 towns and villages in Japan and gave 5,291 lectures in 2,831 locations during the thirteen years from 1906 to 1918. Audience members totaled as many as 1,306,895 (add-ing the results of the subsequent tour in 1919, totals for lectures and audience members would reach approximately 5,400 and 1,400,000, respectively—a truly epoch-making scale of social education activity for the time). On average, he gave lectures at 218 locations a year, with an audience averaging 247 people per lecture. It really was a constant rush, just like the famous phrase from Chinese literature, “south by boat, north on horse.” The table below shows the number of lecture tour days by year (1911 was an exception because it coincided with his third world trip). His diaries show that he kept to a tight schedule of lectures, rarely going on excursions. To ensure no time was lost he would do things like take night trains to and from Tokyo. The most days he spoke in a year was 284, and the least was 172 (the year showing ninety-two days is when he was returning from a world trip). In three separate years he spoke on more than 250 days, in four years on more than 200 days, and in another four years on more than 170 days. Note: Lecture days while abroad are omitted. 1911 was the year of Enryō’s third world trip “South by Boat, North on Horse” 165
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