Enryō had lectured on more than two hundred days the previous year, as was his usual pattern, with 172 days touring domestically and fifty-nine days in the Korean peninsula. So, in December 1918 he was staying at the Yugawara Onsen hot springs in Kanagawa prefecture to recuperate from the fatigue and mental stress. On the twenty-fourth he returned to Tokyo and on January third 1919 he welcomed his first grandchild (Tamio). On New Year’s Day, however, he was struck with a cold and couldn’t stop coughing, so from the sixteenth he returned to concentrating solely on recuperation at Hayama in Kanagawa. On the twenty-second he departed Tokyo to give lectures around Shizuoka prefecture, returning to Tokyo by night train on March twenty-fourth to attend a graduation ceremony at Toyo Uni-versity. That same evening at eleven he departed Tokyo by train and returned to his lecture tour of Shizuoka. Finishing that tour, he ar-rived back in Tokyo on May third. When we look at the flyer for Enryō’s tour of China we see March tenth listed as a date, telling us that the schedule had been arranged in advance. He took just two short days to prepare and on May fifth he departed from Tokyo station. Enryō’s eldest son Gen’ichi made the following comments about this tour. itually unite the Japanese and Chinese peoples. The central lo-cations he had decided on for the trip were Shanghai, Hankou, also venture into deeper areas of China, but unfortunately there The Final Lecture Tour The main objective of my father’s journey to China was to spir-Beijing, Tianjin, Yingkou, and Dalian. He had been prepared to 188
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