Figure 9: Lecture Tour Lengths (in Months) and Frequency his journals Enryō wrote, “I saw a train for the first time in three months,” indicating he had been traveling around remote, hard-to-access villages for that long. It was a daily repetition, “In the morning I travel, in the afternoon I give a lecture, and in the evening I write with my brush.” The places and audiences changed but day-to-day life was basically the same. There were six occasions when he spent more than three months on the road continuously lecturing. On two occasions he did not return home for over five months. Enryō would have said that was the only way he could cover the entire country. I remember one of my stu-dents looking at his diaries and saying, “Enryō-san really was always working hard toward big goals, wasn’t he?” In rural areas hotels were not available so it was not uncommon for Enryō to stay in the night watchman’s room at a primary school or town hall. He refused to be seen off when departing and took only third-class train seats. He ate simple rice balls for lunch and kept his personal belongings, from clothes to bag and watch, simple and practical without pretension. The graduates of his school would say, “Even though he is so well respected he looks like nothing more than a village leader or a revenue officer from the mountains.” Apparently he always took his signature bag (which is still on dis-play in the Toyo University Museum) with him on his tours. 167
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