KISHIMOTO Tatsuo of Meiji University studied in France. But, in the 78 case of Enryō, he embarked on a year-long large-scale world tour. Eight months after founding the Philosophy Academy and suc-ceeding in creating a nationwide educational system with a total of two thousand in-house and correspondence students, Enryō “sud-denly” left for his world tour. While he was away he would entrust the Philosophy Academy to TANAHASHI Ichirō. On June ninth 1888 he boarded the British ship “Gaelic” in Yokohama. He was thirty years old at the time. In modern times it only takes about ten hours to travel from Japan to the United States but in those days you had to cross the Pacific Ocean by boat. There were days when he couldn’t even eat because the ship was being rocked so badly by heavy waves. All in all, it took fourteen days to arrive in San Francisco. Enryō then took the transcontinental railroad, which had just seen the anniversary of its twentieth year of operation, and crossed the American continent. His impression at the time was, topography of its mountains and rivers. Each and every plan ing that is not big. That is to say, the vastness of the rivers and the height of the moun-tains of the American continent mean that people are always think-ing big. While on the trip, Enryō was always observing differences, in the sights, sounds, and foods. After staying in New York for one week, he went on to cross the Atlantic. The great strides in growth made by America are owed to the made by Americans is vast and all-encompassing; there is noth-
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