Tsuda Sen

Tsuda Sen

nihongo|Tsuda Sen|津田仙|Tsuda Sen; (6 August 183724 April 1908) was an agriculturist and educator in Meiji period Japan, one of the founders of Aoyama Gakuin university and the father of noted author Tsuda Umeko.

Tsada was born as the fourth son of a low ranking "samurai" of Sakura domain in Shimosa Province (present day Sakura city, Chiba Prefecture). At the age of 15, he was sent to the domain's school, where he learned English and Dutch, and afterwards was sent to Edo, where he studied "rangaku." He was hired by the Tokugawa bakufu as an interpreter, and accompanied Fukuzawa Yukichi on the Kanrin-maru to the United States in 1867

After the Meiji Restoration, he joined the new Meiji government, and enthusiastically embraced the rapid westernization drive. He opened the first western style hotel in Tsukiji in 1867, near the foreign settlement. He also spent time with the Hokkaido Colonization Office, where he made close contacts with future Prime Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka. Around this time he developed a strong interest in women's education, and when the revolutionary idea of sending women overseas as exchange students with the Iwakura Mission, he quickly volunteered his daughter Umeko.

In 1873 he attended the Vienna Expo, where he met Sano Tsunetami (founder of the Japanese Red Cross), and where received a lesson on Western agricultural techniques, particularly artificial crop pollination. After returning to Japan in May 1874, he opened the "Gakunosha Nogakko" (Gakunosha School of Agriculture) in Azabu, Tokyo and worked to introduce and promote Western vegetables (particularly corn) and fruits. He initially sold the corn by mail advertisement, and is thus also the first such entrepreneur in Japan. He also established a magazine, "Nogyo Zasshi", aimed at the agricultural market. Around this time, it is believed that he also converted to Christianity, and he later became a strong temperance campaigner.

A supporter of agrarian rights, he was involved in the Ashio Copper Mine Scandal, one of Japan's first environmental disputes.

Tsuda also played an important role in establishing Christian schools, such as Aoyama Gakuin, Doshisha University, Friend's Girl's School, and Tokyo School for the Blind and Deaf (currently the "Tsukuba Daigaku Fuzoku Mougakko"). He was involved in most of the work to create the early foundation of Aoyama Gakuin. He died on the Tokaido line train of a cerebral hemorrhage, and his funeral was held in the auditorium of Aoyama Gakuin, and his grave is at Aoyama Cemetery.

References and further reading

* Jansen, Marius B. "The Making of Modern Japan". Belknap Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00991-6
* Furuki Yoshiko. "The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda : Pioneer in the Higher Education of Japanese Women." Weatherhill 1991, ISBN 0-8348-0243-0
* Rose, Barbara. "Tsuda Umeko and Women's Education in Japan". Yale University Press 1992, ISBN 0-300-05177-8


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