had been a sharp rise in anti-Japanese aggression. He felt it was too dangerous to enter the remote villages so he followed the advice of all the people dissuading him from going.” Enryō had apparently planned to return to Tokyo on the ninth after visiting his younger sister Shigeno at her husband’s home in Fukuoka. After arriving in Shanghai on the tenth, he went on to give lectures in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Wuhu, Jiujiang, Hankou, Beijing, and Tianjin. In a postcard to his family during this time he wrote: I want to come home as soon as possible because of the high cost of living, the growing anti-Japan movement [the “May Fourth Movement” in opposition to Japan’s “Twenty-One De-However, he managed to finish his tour and he headed for his final destination, Dalian. In a postcard home featuring a picture of the Bodhisattva Maitreya (Jp. Miroku) dated May twenty-sixth, he wrote, “I arrived safely in Beijing yesterday. Today I will be sightseeing all day. We will visit the Great Wall on the twenty-ninth and move to Tianjin on the thirty-first.” In the beginning, he had planned to stay in Beijing for one week. On June fifth Enryō was on his way to give a lecture in Dalian. The man who greeted Enryō in Dalian was NITTA Shinryō, a gradu-ate of Philosophy Academy University. Nitta had established the Da-lian branch of the Higashi Honganji temple of the True School Otani branch in 1910, and would end up running it for thirty years as its first-generation representative. Nitta received a postcard from mands”], and the annoying bedbugs. 189
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