MITCHELL’s Ancient Geography, WILLSON’s Outlines of History, and GUIZOT’s General History of Civilization in Europe. Being able to 16 youth for doing big things: “I want to make my name known throughout the country.” It is interesting to note that these two po-ems appear one after the other in his collection. He also composed a poem on the scenery in Nagaoka at the time. civilized every day, more prosperous every month. Steamboats come and go at Zaōkō Port, and Watarimachi Ferry Port is bus-tling with rickshaws on their way to and from the city. In photographs of that time, large numbers of people can be seen riding on the boats and heading out to experience the technologies of the new modern times. After goods started to be transported by steamboat we can easily see how Enryō would have been experienc-ing Nagaoka as a place of advanced modernization. He graduated from the Western studies school in two years. Ac-cording to his study log, he studied mathematics as far as basic arith-metic, fractions, proportions, decimals, squared and cubed roots, and algebra, but on Western studies he comments as follows. In those days, it was common to start with the textbook Spelling and finish with Reader, but I started out directly with Parley’s His-tory of the World. But then, about a year later, I made a request to my teacher and went on to study Reader for two or three read these was equivalent to graduating English. Nagaoka in Echigo is a land of modernization, becoming more months from a Westerner who was holidaying here from Tokyo. Once I was done with Parley’s I read a great deal, including
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