Born the son of a samurai at the Takasaki domain residence in Edo.
He entered Sapporo Agricultural College and, influenced by the teachings Clark had left, became a Christian.
He went to America and studied at Amherst College.
At the school where he taught, he was condemned for not bowing deeply to the Imperial Rescript on Education, and left.
He wrote a book in English introducing Japanese ways of life to the world (later Representative Men of Japan).
He started the magazine Seisho no Kenkyū, preaching non-church Christianity independent of churches.
He opposed war with Russia and resigned from his newspaper.
He died in Tokyo.
Sakai ToshihikoKawakami HajimeNitobe Inazō
Mikimoto KōkichiTsubouchi ShōyōKanō JigorōŌyama SutematsuTanabe SakurōMori ŌgaiNitobe InazōOkakura Kakuzō (Tenshin)
People of the Meiji period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.