SAKAINO Satoru/Satoshi (a.k.a. Kōyō), who entered the Philoso- 67 The first was that twelve of the eighteen instructors were gradu-ates of the University of Tokyo. The second was their young age: Enryō was twenty-nine years old and most of the teachers were in their twenties or thirties. The oldest was OKAMOTO Kansuke, from whom Enryō received lessons at prep school but even in his case he was still only forty-eight years old. MURAKAMI Senshō was working as a lecturer in Buddhist studies while at the same time studying West-ern philosophy as a student. The Meiji period is said to have been an age of early maturity, but the driving force behind the newly estab-lished Philosophy Academy was the fresh intelligence and overflow-ing enthusiasm of these instructors. In the early days of the school, there were no entrance exams, and other than attendance being limited to males aged sixteen or older, there were no special restrictions. Consequently, there was a wide range of students, from seventeen year-old youths to middle-aged forty to fifty year-old men, some with children and grandchildren. phy Academy at age nineteen and later became its fourth president, wrote about his impressions of that time. It was a modern school in name only, and was in the style of a temple school from the Tokugawa [Edo] period, in a room bor-rowed from the Yushima temple. There were no regulations on student clothing. Some came in Western clothes, there were [tradi-tional-style] split hakama skirts, and there were even people in the gold brocade robes and prayer beads [of a priest]. Looking back now, it was like some sort of costume party.
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