There is a monument of "The Birthplace of Keio University" next to "Monument of the beginning of Dutch Studies".
Yukichi Fukuzawa, the head of Osaka and Suijuku, was invited to the Nakatsu clan Edo Nakayashiki, and opened the Dutch school in 1858 <1858>. This is the place where Keio University founded.
The monument was established in 1958 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its founding. This work is designed by architect Yoshiro Taniguchi, the same as "Monument of the beginning of Dutch studies". In this type of inscription, the famous "Heaven does not build people on people, does not build people under people" ("Recommendation of learning") is engraved on the left and right pages of the spread.
In 1869, Fukuzawa praised the feat of Genpaku Sugita's "Langaku Beginning", who wrote the hardships of translation of "Dismantling Shinsho" by his predecessor Nakatsu clan doctor Ryotaku Maeno and Kohama clan doctor Genpaku Sugita. Will publish the book with a preface.
In 1859, "Lan scholar" Fukuzawa went to Yokohama, which has just opened its port. And I was shocked that English was used in the area, and I was shocked that I could not understand Dutch at all, so I realized the need for English in the future and worked to learn this language.
It was time for the delegation to the United States to ratify the Japan-U.S. Osamu Good Trade Treaty.
I was able to board the accompanying ship, Kanrin Maru as a servant of the warship magistrate, Kimura Settsu Morikiki. Fukuzawa, who had been in and out of the Katsurakawa family, Kuniko's house of Edo Dutch studies, gained a recommendation to Settsumori Kimura, a marriage relative to the Keisen family, with the help of this source. . It is natural that he has been friendly and friendly with Kaishu Kimura for a lifetime even after the Meiji period. On the other hand, Kaishu Katsu has badly negotiated from the time of boarding and cannot have good emotions throughout the day, and later in the theory of thinness (written in 1891, announced in 1891) he was greatly criticized for how to treat himself after the Meiji Restoration of Kaishu.
After returning to Japan, Fukuzawa's Dutch school plans to convert to English school.
In 1862 <1862>, a delegation to European countries, headed by Morinori Takeuchi, was formed, accompanied by Foreign Minister Munenori Terajima, Genichiro Fukuchi, who started the Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun, and Shuhei Mitsukuri, to observe and hear the various systems of European countries and recognize the importance of introducing them to Japan.
In 1867 <1867>, the Shogunate dispatched a mission to receive the warship "Mount Fuji" ordered from the United States. At this time, I will travel to the United States again as a member of the shogunate foreign magistrate translation.
I have already visited Europe and the United States three times during the late Tokugawa shogunate period.
Just before the Meiji Restoration, Yukichi Fukuzawa, who wrote "Western Situation", later wrote a brilliant footprint as a leading figure in the founding of modern Japan, a thinker, educator, Kaimei scholar, and enlightenment scholar who represented the Meiji era. Was carved in history.
Fukuzawa Juku, a private school relocated to Shiba Shinsenza in April 1868, is named "Keio Gijuku".
Reference Book: Kanae Iida "Yukichi Fukuzawa" Nakakou Shinsho
Yukichi Fukuzawa Works Vol. 12
"Fukuo Autobiography Fukuzawa Zensho Ogon", Keio University Press
