著者

中川 良和

出版者

日本英学史学会

雑誌

英学史研究 (ISSN:03869490)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1983, no.15, pp.113-123, 1982

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Upon his arrival in Japan in early 1895, Dr. B. C. Northrop (1817-1898) received an unforeseen warm welcome. The Japanese had not forgotten the old man who had never stopped working for newly-opened Japan as an introducer of Dr. David Murray and Dr. William Clark, a proposer for the return of the Shimonoseki indemnity fund and a friend of Japanese youths in the U. S.<BR>Thanks to the late Mr. Shunichi Kuga's pursuits made with worldwide collaborators, we can now look on Northrop as a man with another title of the founder of School Arbor Day here. Believing that about Northrop, like other'unemployed' foreigners, there are still more stories to tell, I tried to reassess him through newly-found materials, chiefly local papers and magazines in both languages, and was lucky enough to pick up some data, which, I hope, will cast a little more light on Northrop studies.<BR>This paper chiefly concerns : <BR>1. The content and background of his lectures both in Tokyo and in Kyoto<BR>2. His concerns over our new educational system<BR>3. His life on both sides of the Pacific and especially his friends (American and Japanese) who helped him introduce the true pictures of School Arbor Day Movement.