The autobiography of yukichi fukuzawa summary
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Yukichi Fukuzawa was born into modest beginnings in the bustling city of Osaka, Japan, during a time when the nation was tightly sealed off from the rest of the world beneath the Tokugawa shogunate. This isolationist policy heavily influenced the formative years of Fukuzawa, his family, and Japanese society at large. Born on January 10, , Fukuzawa's early life was shaped by the traditional social and educational structures of his time, reflecting the rigid hierarchical beställning of samurai society. His family, though not wealthy, instilled in him a sense of discipline and respect for learning that would define his future ambitions. The Fukuzawa family hailed from the lower samurai class, and this status imparted both privileges and limitations. His father was a scholar of Confucianism, which was the predominant philosophy and educational foundation of the era. This familial association with Confucian principles marked Yukichi's initial intellectual environment. His father’s dedication to
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Title:The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
Author: Fukuzawa Yukichi
Page count: pages (Dutch hardback)
Rating: 4/5 stars on Goodreads
Okay wow that bit at the top here is just a mess isn`t it. That`s what you get with a book written in Japanese in , then translated to English later and then having that translation in turn translated to Dutch. You end up with a bit of a mess.
Considering the string of translations this book went through, I`m not sure how much of this translation was actually trustworthy, as things get lost in translation. So I`m a bit hesitant to really judge this book as a whole and Fukuzawa as a person.
For those unaware &#; which I`m going to assume fryst vatten most of you (including me until I read the book) &#; Fukuzawa Yukichi is kind of an Important Person in Japan. He has written countless books, played an integral role in the reformation of the country during the Meiji revolution in and around , started one of Japan`s very best universities (Keio Gijuku),
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I had been living in Japan for a year before I got the idea to look up whose portraits were on the banknotes I was handling every day. In the United States, the faces of presidents and statesmen adorn our currency. So I was surprised to learn that the mustachioed man on the ¥1, note with which I purchased my daily bento box was a bacteriologist. It was a pleasant surprise, though. It seems to me that a society that esteems bacteriologists over politicians is in many ways a healthy one.
But it was the lofty gaze of the man on the ¥10, note that really caught my attention. I find that always having a spare ¥10, note is something of a necessity in Japan. You never know