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 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]
— General
— Journalist
Iwamoto Yoshiharu — Educator^[7]
— Public prosecutor
— Journalist, member of the House of Peers
— Educator
— Politician
Jiro Okabe — Member of the Japanese House of Representatives
Tokonami Takejirō — Politician
Yatarō Mishima — Banker

References[]

^ 『床次竹二郎伝』（編・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.
^ Hamish., Ion, A. (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.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.
^ 1958-, 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.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[1] 『床次竹二郎伝』（編・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] Hamish., Ion, A. (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.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] 1958-, 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.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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