his forefathers had all succumbed to stroke. However, he was so busy touring the country and writing that he often slept only two or three hours a night, and to clear his mind he relied on As we have already seen Enryō’s nationwide tours can be divided into two periods. The first was the period of the Philosophy Acad-emy, which lasted for fifteen years from 1890 to 1905, from the time he was thirty-two until he was forty-seven. The total number of tour-ing lecture days numbered 966 (excluding any for which we lack de-tails). The second period was that of the Morality Church and the Philosophy Shrine, which lasted fourteen years from 1906 to 1919, with a total of 2,621 days of lectures. When the two periods are com-bined it makes for a total twenty-nine years, with 3,587 days of lec-tures—equivalent to 10 years. The locations of Enryō’s lectures are recorded in the diaries he left behind. However, the 71,314 total municipalities that existed in 1888 were merged into a total of 15,859 with the great administrative consolidation of 1889. Because the names were changed, we carried out a survey in 1995 to determine where they would be located at that time when there was a total of 3,234 municipalities. On the map below, the coverage of Enryō’s tours can be easily visualized, with the municipalities of today shaded to represent the places that were home to one or more lectures. The conspicuous blank spaces in areas such as Hokkaido represent land that was yet to be developed. Even still, visualizing the tours through a map clearly shows how they ex-tended right around the country. whiskey [often “Diamond” brand, the cheapest at the time].” 184
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