Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . from Count Okumas Fifty Years of NewJapan, is of lasting interest. TsTakamura, born at Yedo in 1831, was already a con-siderable scholar in Japanese and Chinese classics when, in1847, he became a pupil of the noted Dutch scholar, HoshuKatsuragawa. He, however, gave up Dutch for Englishlater, and studying hard, was said to have copied out anEnglish dictionary. He served in the Tokugawa Govern-ment as an official Chinese scholar, went to Europe in 1866,and, returning in 1868, stayed at Shizuoka with the Sho-gun Yoshinobu. While he was there he translated theAmerican C
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . from Count Okumas Fifty Years of NewJapan, is of lasting interest. TsTakamura, born at Yedo in 1831, was already a con-siderable scholar in Japanese and Chinese classics when, in1847, he became a pupil of the noted Dutch scholar, HoshuKatsuragawa. He, however, gave up Dutch for Englishlater, and studying hard, was said to have copied out anEnglish dictionary. He served in the Tokugawa Govern-ment as an official Chinese scholar, went to Europe in 1866,and, returning in 1868, stayed at Shizuoka with the Sho-gun Yoshinobu. While he was there he translated theAmerican Constitution, George Washingtons FarewellAddress, and Mills On Liberty, and wrote anonymouslyan article on Christianity. In 1872 he came up to Tokyoand was employed in Government service. Relinquishingthe caste of samurai and becoming a commoner, he estab-lished a private school, called the Doninsha, in 1873, whichwas soon crowded with students aware of his fame. Twoyears later he opened a girls department and encouraged 111. JOSIAH WEDGEWOODThe potter, a cripple with one leg, examines the wares the laborers areplacing upon the shelves. womens education. In the same year he was entrustedwith the first directorship of the Tokyo Girls NormalSchool and founded a kindergarten. In 1877 he was madeprofessor in the Imperial University, and in 1890 he waselected a member of the House of Peers, and died the fol-lowing year at the age of sixty, being honored with a specialImi^erial message of condolence. He was a man of fine literary taste, of sound scholar-ship, and of classic mood. Warm in friendship and happyin doing good, he made no enemy and led a pure life, reveringHeaven and loving men. His translations of Smiles SelfHelp and Character had a greater influence over youngmen in the early seventies than any other book of the devout Confucian scholar himself, he was also an admirerof Christian faith and morality, and was most fitted tointerpret Western ethics to Orientals. That t
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