49 (Nishida later established the “Kyoto School of philosophy” and is still regarded as one of the world’s greatest philosophers). in the sense that it set the direction for Japanese idealism in the following years. In this work, Enryō employs his literary talent to take profound ideas based in Buddhist thought and work them into a highly entertaining piece of reading material. It was a widely read book at the time, and it made a significant contri-bution to the popularization of philosophy. Taking up a later work by Enryō, he wrote, a systematic exposition of his own metaphysics. Enryō was a systematic thinker by nature, but it is surely in this work that his character is best expressed. Enryō succeeded in the challenge of his first significant project and became an overnight celebrity. Around this time, on November first 1886 he married Kei, the daughter of YOSHIDA Junichirō, a former doctor of the Kanazawa fiefdom. Kei was a graduate of Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School for teacher training (now Ocha-nomizu University). Before marriage she had been a teacher at a pri-vate middle school. In January 1887 Enryō also established a pub-lishing company called “Philosophical Publishing House” in order to popularize and promote books on philosophy. As mentioned above, Enryō’s An Evening of Philosophical Conversation was the beginning of pure philosophy—that is, metaphysics—in the Meiji period. It is also an important work New Proposal in Philosophy should be seen as Enryō’s master work,
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