73 received no special assistance or protection from outside so all founding expenses were covered by donations from like-agreed with the objectives of the Academy and donated some co-founders. This was Enryō’s management philosophy. Not receiving “special as-sistance or protection from outside” meant not relying on religious organizations or influential people from the worlds of politics or business. At the time Enryō was still young at twenty-nine years old, but he was an elite graduate of the University of Tokyo and was al-ready famous. He surely would have been able to collect large dona-tions if he had asked influential government or community members. However, Enryō was the sort of man who believed in trying to achieve as much as possible in one lifetime, in line with his philoso-phy of accomplishing things through his own efforts. In January 1887 Enryō established the “Philosophical Publishing House” for the purpose of spreading philosophy. And, in February he published works such as his best-selling Prolegomena to a Living Dis-course on Buddhism. From June he advanced efforts to establish his school by publishing “The Objective of Founding the Philosophy Academy” and in September he held the opening ceremony. One can only imagine how busy he must have been. Thus the long-awaited school was established, but Enryō’s physical condition was far from ideal. In the October following the opening he could frequently be found vomiting up blood. Nevertheless, he pushed forward. When I founded the Philosophy Academy, I had no capital and minded individuals. At that time, there were 280 people who money. Thus, it is appropriate to say that the Academy had 280
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