31 scholars. Katō was the first premier of the University of Tokyo and also brought together the group called the “Meiji Six Society.” An expert in German studies, Katō was a leader in Japan’s modernization and enlightenment thought. On the day of his arrival in Tokyo, Enryō stayed at the True School Ōtani branch (Higashi Honganji) temple Nensokuji, located near the present-day Hakusan campus of Toyo University. The temple be-longed to a friend he met during his time at teachers college in Kyoto. The Katō family had entrusted Nensokuji with overseeing their fu-neral and memorial services. The temple abbot took Enryō with him to visit the family’s private residence in Kojimachi. There he intro-duced Enryō as a visiting student from the head temple and re-quested that Katō guide him in his future endeavors. From then on Katō become a great lifelong benefactor to Enryō. Katō’s recommendation was that he enter the newly-established University of Tokyo. In order to do so, Enryō began studying for the entrance exams that would take place in September. The University of Tokyo consisted of a preparatory school and undergraduate pro-grams. The prep school was equivalent to a senior high school today, but students couldn’t enter an undergraduate program without first graduating from this school. Enryō comments on the situation in the school at that time as follows. In those days, the teachers at the prep school were all Western-ers, with a couple of Japanese people mixed in. The examina-tions were all conducted in the Western style, so Western lan-guages were spoken in the classrooms, the bulletins were posted in Western letters, and even the Japanese spoke in English.
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