D?jinsha

D?jinsha (同人社) was a school in Koishikawa , Tokyo founded by Masanao Nakamura . It was established in 1873 and closed in 1891.

History [ edit ]

D?jinsha was founded in 1873. Alongside Keio Gijuku and Sansagakusha, it was one of the three major Western-style schools in Japan that taught English during the Meiji period. ^[1] The school also offered classes in Western Studies and Chinese. There was also a D?jinsha girls' school, which was established in 1875, and a school for the disabled.

Masanao Nakamura started the school to get closer to Yukichi Fukuzawa , the founder of Keio Gijuku, and to educate his friends' children. J?g? Sugiura, a former journalist, managed the school. ^[2] Nakamura invited Tsurutaro Senga to be the head teacher. George Cochran, a Canadian missionary, taught Bible classes at the school that were well?attended. ^[3] During his time teaching at D?jinsha, Cochran converted Nakamura to Christianity, and baptized him in December 1874. Shortly thereafter, a group called the Koishikawa Christian Band (named for the district the school is in) formed at D?jinsha. ^[4]

At its peak, D?jinsha had more than 300 students. Unfortunately, as the number of students gradually decreased and as the school's administration ran into financial difficulties, the school closed in 1891. ^[5]

Notable alumni [ edit ]

Hasegawa Nyozekan ? Journalist ^[6]
Iguchi Sh?go ? General
Ikebe Sanzan ? Journalist
Iwamoto Yoshiharu ? Educator ^[7]
Kobayashi Yoshir? ? Public prosecutor
Kojima Kazuo ? Journalist, member of the House of Peers
Masaki Naotar? ? Educator
Mori M?tengai ? Politician
Jiro Okabe ? Member of the Japanese House of Representatives
Tokonami Takejir? ? Politician
Yatar? Mishima ? Banker

References [ edit ]

^ 『床次竹二??』（前田蓮山編? 瀧正雄校?、床次竹二??記刊行?、1939年）
^ Cobbing, Andrew (2013). The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West . Routledge. ISBN 9781134250134 .
^ Ion, A. Hamish (2006). The Cross and the Rising Sun, Volume 1 : the Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1872-1931 . Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9780889207608 . OCLC 753479514 .
^ Donaghy, Greg; Roy, Patricia E. (2009). Contradictory Impulses: Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century . UBC Press. ISBN 9780774858359 .
^ Britain & Japan : biographical portraits. Vol. 4 . Cortazzi, Hugh., Japan Society (New York, N.Y.). London: Japan Library. 2002. ISBN 9781136641404 . OCLC 822561494 . {{ cite book }}: CS1 maint: others ( link )
^ Barshay, Andrew E. (1988). "State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis" . publishing.cdlib.org . Retrieved 2018-11-06 .
^ Yasutake, Rumi (2004). Transnational women's activism : the United States, Japan, and Japanese immigrant communities in California, 1859-1920 . New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814789049 . OCLC 794701176 .

[1] 『床次竹二??』（前田蓮山編? 瀧正雄校?、床次竹二??記刊行?、1939年）

[2] Cobbing, Andrew (2013). The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West . Routledge. ISBN 9781134250134 .

[3] Ion, A. Hamish (2006). The Cross and the Rising Sun, Volume 1 : the Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1872-1931 . Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9780889207608 . OCLC 753479514 .

[4] Donaghy, Greg; Roy, Patricia E. (2009). Contradictory Impulses: Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century . UBC Press. ISBN 9780774858359 .

[5] Britain & Japan : biographical portraits. Vol. 4 . Cortazzi, Hugh., Japan Society (New York, N.Y.). London: Japan Library. 2002. ISBN 9781136641404 . OCLC 822561494 . {{ cite book }}: CS1 maint: others ( link )

[6] Barshay, Andrew E. (1988). "State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis" . publishing.cdlib.org . Retrieved 2018-11-06 .

[7] Yasutake, Rumi (2004). Transnational women's activism : the United States, Japan, and Japanese immigrant communities in California, 1859-1920 . New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814789049 . OCLC 794701176 .

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