田中正造考(四) : 下町の文化的風土 その三
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Shozo Tanaka had often written that he was uneducated. Until what level was his early education? This paper is intended to answer this question. When he became a pupil of the Akao Private School in 1847,Shozo was six years old. And after nine years, he left there because of his master's death. His school education concluded at the point of his reciting of the Nine Chinese Classics (Shi-syo Go-kyo) with return marks (Kaeri-ten). Roshu Akao, the master of the school, would not give his pupils lectures about these texts if they could not resd them without return marks. After all, Shozo was obliged to give his school studies up when his master died in 1856. After yeas, he criticized Akao's way of education because it crushed the intellectual appetite of the pupils. However, Shozo wrote in his later diary that he had repeated from memory the Analects of Confucius in his eary days. Actually, many maxims were quoted from it in his diaries and letters. For example, "It is not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals?" "There is one single thread (sincerity) binding my way together". or "Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to bc able to learn from them", etc.. Though he could not hear his master's interpretation of such words Shozo might have been able to learn the meaning of them from his father and senior pupils. According to his son, Shikei Akao, Roshu said to him that he should be not 'a man of being known' or 'a man of great knowledge' but 'a man of getting through' or 'a man of deeds'. Tomizo, Shozo's father, had been a pupil of Roshu. In 1878,when Shozo told him his determination to offer his life to politiical reform and asked for his leave to spend the family property for political activities, Tomizo was very glad to grant his son's request and encouraged him offering a satirical poem (kyoka) by one zen-priest, that is "It is no use becoming a Buddha after death. Be a useful man before death !" Although he was not a man of great knowledge, Shozo seems to have learned being 'a man of getting through through' his father and his master Roshu in the end.
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