his will, the park was donated to the Tokyo metropolitan government. It was later transferred to Nakano ward, and is now known as the ward-administered “Temple Garden of Philosophy.” The park is popular for sports and is lovingly thought of as “a park for the mind,” with 170,000 visitors a year from Tokyo and beyond). Enryō’s domestic lecture tours were going well, but now let’s take a look at his planning for a third world trip. Today Toyo University is home to a collection of Western language works that belonged to Enryō. In the collection there are several travel guidebooks for vari-ous countries around the world. For the previous five years Enryō had spent more than half of each year touring Japan and now he was taking a break and using these books to map out new countries to visit. He had already been around the world twice, once going east and once going west, but he had never traveled north-south. For that reason he departed for the southern hemisphere on his third inter-national journey. In 1911 Enryō set out for Australia and the southern hemisphere. He was already fifty-three years old. At the time it was believed that “a lifetime is sixty years” but Enryō’s challenging spirit had not waned. This time he traveled on the Japanese ship Nikkō Maru. In his travel diary 50,000 Miles in the Southern Hemisphere he wrote, “The twenty or so first-class passengers were all white people,” suggesting that Japan’s internationalization was progressing only gradually. He departed from Yokohama on April first. Completing a Full World Journey 176
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