Figure 8: Yearly Lecture Days Enryō spent the last thirteen years of his life promoting lifelong learning and giving lectures all over the country. As we can see above he gave lectures on more than 2,600 days and the average number of days per year exceeded two hundred. The breakdown of how he managed to accumulate such a large number of speaking days had not previously been investigated. Here I was able to learn something by looking at his diaries and categorizing the information according to the number of lecture days in one round. Figure 9 below shows the aggregated results of Enryō’s lecture tours by period (in months). In total there were forty-eight lecture rounds. This table reveals two things. The first is that there were ten long rounds of lecture tours of up to five months, and another twenty-five short rounds of one-to-two months. We can see that En-ryō carried out his lecture tours around the country combining these two approaches. From an outsider’s point of view, we can easily im-agine doing a lecture tour that lasts up to around two weeks but a month or more would be beyond the imagination of most people. In 166
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