Dōjinsha

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

History

Masanao Nakamura

Dōjinsha 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 Dōjinsha 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. Jūgō 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 Dōjinsha, 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 Dōjinsha.^[4]

At its peak, Dōjinsha 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

Hasegawa Nyozekan — Journalist^[6]
Iguchi Shōgo — General
Ikebe Sanzan — Journalist
Iwamoto Yoshiharu — Educator^[7]
Kobayashi Yoshirō — Public prosecutor
Kojima Kazuo — Journalist, member of the House of Peers
Masaki Naotarō — Educator
Mori Mōtengai — Politician
Jiro Okabe — Member of the Japanese House of Representatives
Tokonami Takejirō — Politician
Yatarō Mishima — Banker

References

^ 『床次竹二郎伝』（前田蓮山編・瀧正雄校閲、床次竹二郎伝記刊行会、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] 『床次竹二郎伝』（前田蓮山編・瀧正雄校閲、床次竹二郎伝記刊行会、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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