80 and teaching at its school for Asia studies. Fujishima joined them in Berlin and the three of them discussed methods for popularizing philosophy. They also visited philosopher Eduard von HARTMANN and received permission to copyright translations of his works. After that Enryō returned to Paris via Belgium, where he visited the Inter-national Exposition. This 1889 Paris Expo is famous for providing the occasion for the construction of the Eiffel Tower. On his return trip he took a ship from Marseilles and arrived in Yokohama on June twenty-eighth 1889 after traveling via Egypt, Ara-bia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and China. More than a year had passed since his departure. I have been surveying and researching the travel and accommoda-tion expenses that would have been involved in a one-year trip around the world, but it is still unclear. In the Ministry of Education’s regulations for studying abroad it states that round-trip expenses should be “450 yen in gold coins for the United States and 625 yen for European countries.” In Enryō’s case the cost of travel for the U.S. and Europe was 538 yen. The value of one yen in gold differed between the early and late Meiji periods, so it is difficult to estimate the modern value but it must have been a considerable amount. After having completed his trip around the world Enryō came to the same conclusion as modern-day Major League Baseball player SU-can get information from all over the world instantly, but to know the world, you have to actually go and experience it for yourself.” ZUKI Ichirō. Ichirō said, “In today’s age of social networking, you A University of Japan-centrism and Universalism
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