Yoshitami Naruto, his Life and Achievements

Abstract

The earlier part of the personal history of Yoshitami Naruto (1835-1913) has not been clearly known. And in spite of the fact that he made great contributionsto English educational progress in Japan at the beginning of the Meiji era, his achievements are not very well known.Yoshitami Naruto was born in Awa. Today in Tokushima he has become a legendary person in the story, such as Awa Konjahu Monogatari (阿波今昔物語・1942), Kiko to Itsuwa no Izumi (奇行と逸話の泉・1964), and so on.This article tries to shed a historic light on the man Yoshitami Naruto and to present the role he played in the modernization of Japan.