L. L. Janes in Osaka 1876-1877
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Leroy Lancing Janes (1837-1909) is quite well-known as a pioneer American educator in early Meiji Japan. He was the father of the so-called Kumamoto Band whose members played indispensable role in the modern history of Christianity in Japan. It is, however, not true that we can have a good grasp of his whole life in detail. Thanks to newly published American Samurai (Princeton University Press, 1985) by F. G. Notehelfer, Janes has begun to show his real figure, especially in America, to us for the first time. But we cannot but admit that in spite of Notehelfer's magnificent work, what Janes did in Osaka and Kagoshima still remains in an uncertain condition particularly for the lack of the available materials on the Japanese side.This paper of mine aims to make his days in Osaka as clearly as possible, making use of the unknown materials preserved at one of the archives of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.Leaving Kumamoto on Oct. 7, 1876, he entered into a contract with Osaka-Eigo-Gakko on Oct. 20. He taught chemistry and physics there from Nov. 1 to Apr. 10, 1877, when he had to resign owing to his illness and disappointment at the school.He came back home with his family in May, 1877, with the hope of visiting Japan again to be a professor of Doshisha, which, however, turned out in vain because of the divorce suit brought by his wife's father, H. M. Scudder. This suit actually brought him a social death.While he was in Osaka, he was requested earnestly to join the Japan Mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to work at Doshisha where most of his former students were studying. But he would not respond to its call at that time, missing thus the last chance to work at Doshisha. In this sense his hesitation in Osaka became the Great Divide for his life, dividing it into those two parts, the first half filled with glory and the second with tragedy.
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