Nakamura Masanao

Keiu Nakamura (Japanese中 村 敬宇, civil Masanao Nakamura (中 村 正直); born May 26, 1832 † June 1, 1891 ) was a Japanese educator and translator.

Life

Nakamura, who came from a family of the samurai status, studied from 1848 to 1853 at the Shōheikō, the official academy of the shogunate and was here 1862 teacher of Confucianism. In 1866 he was sent to England as a supervisor of Japanese students. After his return to Japan immediately after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, he settled in Shizuoka, where he lived until 1872 and untrerrichtete.

During this period he created his translation of Samuel Smiles Self-Help ( Saikoku risshi bonds) and John Stewart Mill On Liberty ( Jiyu no ri ). Both works experienced numerous reprints and switched in Japan an idea of ​​the Western European ideas of individuality, self-realization and freedom.

1873 Nakamura was a member of the first Japanese Society of Western European -trained teachers, Meirokusha. In the same year he founded the private school Dōjinsha that the political and moral education of men and women devoted himself, and based in the school magazine Dōjinsha bungaku zasshi. In 1874, he was baptized a Christian.

From 1875 to 1880 Nakamura led the women's school in Tokyo, in 1881 he became Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Tokyo. After his induction into the Japanese Academy of Sciences 1879, he was admitted to the Genrōin and 1890 the Kizokuin 1886.

Swell

• Douglas Howland: "Personal Liberty and Public Good: The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China," University of Toronto Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8020-9005-8, pp. 61-81
• Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures - Nakamura, Masanao

• Author
• Pedagogue
• Translation (literary )
• Literature (Japanese)
• Member of Kizokuin
• Pseudonym
• Born in 1832
• Died in 1891
• Man