46 Eventually Higashi Honganji simply issued an order for him to con-tinue to work on studying Indian philosophy. This time Enryō be-came a government sponsored scholarship student and was chosen as one of five research students at the University of Tokyo. Eventu-ally he would become one of seven graduate students when the school transitioned to become the Imperial University. However, it is said that Enryō’s negotiations with Higashi Honganji concerning the establishment of a school were repeated three or four times after that. Enryō, a young man who grew up in Nagaoka, gained a wealth of experienced in the University of Tokyo’s prep school and undergrad-uate program. He was now able to think about Japan’s problems as his own. It is said that knowledge is power, and it is through the power of education that people change and develop. Almost twenty years had passed since the beginning of the Meiji era and Japan was facing major problems. Fukuzawa Yukichi said, “The world of tangible things, such as steamships and telegraphs, has advanced, but the world of intangible things—that of the heart—has not advanced at all.” Enryō was thinking the same thing. His idea was to spread philosophy in society and, through the power of edu-cation, modernize the way Japanese people saw the world. We know that Enryō, who had firmly refused the idea of entering the Ministry of Education offered by Ishiguro, was thinking of going on to establish a private school. His proposal to Higashi Honganji was still under negotiation. After graduating from university Enryō “How Much Can I Achieve in One Life?”
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