The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa / revised translation by Eiichi Kiyooka ; with a foreword by Carmen Blacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fukuzawa, Yukichi, 1835-1901.

Contributor:

Kiyooka, Eiichi, 1902-1997.

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese series

Standardized Title:

Fukuō jiden. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Fukuzawa, Yukichi, 1835-1901.

Fukuzawa, Yukichi.

Teachers--Japan--Biography.

Teachers.

Japan.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)

Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 407 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1966.

Contents:

Foreword by Carmen Blacker

Preface to the 1899 edition

I: Childhood

II: I Set Out to Learn Dutch in Nagasaki

III: I Make My Way to Osaka

IV: Student Ways at Ogata School

V: I Go to Yedo; I Learn English

VI: I Join the First Mission to America

VII: I Go to Europe

VIII: I Return to Anti-Foreign Japan

IX: I Visit America Again

X: A Non-Partisan in the Restoration; The Growth of a Private School

XI: The Risk of Assassination

XII: Further Steps Toward a Liberal Age

XIII: My Personal and Household Economy

XIV: My Private Life; My Family

XV: A Final Word on the Good Life

Notes

Appendices

Index.

Notes:

"Edition for the Japan Society of New York."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Mausner Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.

Mausner Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

192005