Quotes from Fukuzawa Yukichi's books, and about them
An Encouragement of Learning on Kojiki: “A man who can recite Japan's Kojiki from memory but does not know today's price of rice should be called ignorant in the learning of everyday life. [auto-translated]”
An Encouragement of Learning on The Elements of Moral Science: “In a book called The Elements of Moral Science, written by an American named Wayland, there is a discussion of the freedom of a person's body and mind; the gist of the argument is that each person's self belongs to himself. [auto-translated]”
An Encouragement of Learning on Rangaku Koto Hajime: “Japan's civilization first came from Korea and China, then was polished by our own people's efforts into its modern shape; Western learning has distant roots, reaching back to the Horeki era (see the printed book Rangaku Koto Hajime). [auto-translated]”
An Encouragement of Learning on The Subjection of Women: “Today it seems almost natural that men attend to affairs outside and women manage the home, but Stuart Mill wrote The Subjection of Women, attempting to break this age-old, seemingly fixed custom. [auto-translated]”
An Encouragement of Learning on Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety: “Stories urging filial piety have been very numerous in Japan and China since ancient times, beginning with the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety, and the other writings are too many to count. [auto-translated]”
An Encouragement of Learning on Greater Learning for Women: “The book Greater Learning for Women says: 'A woman has three obediences: in youth she obeys her parents, once married her husband, and in old age her sons.' [auto-translated]”
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi on Zuo Zhuan: “Afterwards I attended lectures on other Chinese texts, and then studied alone, history first; I was especially fond of the Zuo Zhuan, and while most students quit after three or four of its fifteen volumes, I read it all, about eleven times, and memorized the interesting parts. [auto-translated]”
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi on Book of Han: “For history I read the Records of the Grand Historian first, then the Book of Han and the Book of Later Han, the Jin history, the Five Dynasties and the like. [auto-translated]”