Inoue Enryo (井上円了, March 18, 1858 - June 6, 1919), founder of Toyo University (東洋大学), was a Japanese educator, philosopher and Buddhist. March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Philosophy (from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom), as a practice, aims at some kind of understanding, knowledge or wisdom about fundamental matters such as reality, knowledge, meaning, value, being and truth. ... Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ...

Enryo was Japan's first scientific investigator of anomalous phenomenon. To enlighten his fellow countrymen, he authored a six-volume A Study of Yōkai (妖怪学). As a result, he was best known as Dr. Ghost (お化け博士) or Dr. Yōkai (妖怪博士). An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge, e. ... The term also more specifically refers to an intellectual movement, The Enlightenment, which is described as being the use of rationality to establish an authoritative ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge. ... Reputed ghost of a monk. ... Yōkai (Often spelled Youkai, Japanese: 妖怪) (apparitions, spirits or demons) are class of creatures in Japanese folklore ranging from the evil oni to the mischievous kitsune. ...

It is worthy to note, that the Chinese version of The Study of Yōkai was translated by another famous Chinese educator and philosopher: Dr. Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培). Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the called the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation. ... Cài Yuánpéi (蔡元培, Wade_Giles: Tsai Yüan_pei) (January 11, 1868 _ March 5, 1940) was a Chinese educator and the chancellor of the Peking University, and known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the May Fourth Movement. ...

See also

• Charles Fort

Charles Fort, 1920 Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 - May 3, 1932), writer and researcher into Dutch ancestry. ...

External links

• The Inoue Enryo Center, Toyo University (http://www.toyo.ac.jp/enryo/)