ENOMOTO Takeaki, and Tokyo governor TAKASAKI Goroku. 86 English language classes there. Enryō was employed as an advisor at this school. Enryō had been receiving letters from his father Engo since be-fore this, as the latter was advancing in age as an abbot and he wanted Enryō to take over Jikōji. In response, in August 1889 Enryō sent a letter to his father explaining in detail the relationship between the current situation in Japan and the crisis in Buddhism. He said that he could not return to the temple immediately. In the end Enryō did not succeed to the post of abbot and his younger brother Enjō took up the role after their father’s passing. The ceremony commemorating the relocation of the school from Rinshōin to Hōraichō was held on November thirteenth 1889. In addition to the students there were one hundred guests who included distinguished doctorate and bachelor degree holders, high-ranking clergy from the different schools of Buddhism, and prestigious fig-ures such as senate councilor KATŌ Hiroyuki, education minister In his speech on this day Enryō introduced the objectives of the Academy and listed four points for improvement based on his expe-riences overseas. First, organizing the departments on the basis of traditional Japanese studies; second, promoting the creation of a unique Japanese academic style through a comparison of both East-ern and Western studies; third, cultivating men of balanced wisdom and virtue; and, fourth, turning Japan’s religion and education spe-cialists into men of consistent integrity in word and deed. He stated, Educational Principles of the Philosophy Academy
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