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| 1, 1-chome, Fukushima, Fukushima-ku at the northern end of Tamaebashi |
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[ Tamaebashi ] by bus, about 200m to the northeast |
| Fukuzawa Yukichi was born at Kurayashiki
(warehouse) of the domain of Nakatsu(Oita
Prefecture) on the 12th of December in the
5th year of Tempo(1834). His father died suddenly when he was only one year and eight months, so his mother came back to Nakatsu with him. He wan brought up there and studied Confucianism. After having been sent to Nagasaki for learning, he started for Edo, in the first year of Ansei(1854). When he stopped over at Osaka Kurayashiki, he was advised to enter a private school of Ogata Koan(1810-1863) by his elder brother, so he entered the school next year and at last he became a head master of it. He went abroad three times accompanying an envoy of the Shogunate. Later he distinguished himself as a man of thought of civilization and enlightenment in the era of Meiji. He founded the Keio University. |
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