Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: I Refuse

1 Education of a Meiji Samurai

2 Budding Civil Servant

3 Birth of a Writer

4 Justification of Self and of Nation

5 Out into the World

Part 2: The Pact with God

6 With Luther Presiding

7 The Taught

8 The Teaching: Christianity and the Bible

9 The Teaching: Institutions and Individuals

10 The Last Chance

Part 3: I Am Not

11 Christ Is Coming

12 The Bible and Japan

13 The Sage

14 Telling Off the West

15 Maturing Vipers

16 What Is Mukyôkai?

Conclusion: Uchimura Kanzô in History

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

John F. Howes, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies atthe University of British Columbia, was awarded the Order of the RisingSun by the Government of Japan in 2004.

Reviews

This huge, ambitious study is the final product of 50 years of research and reflection, and should become an indispensable first reference for anyone seeking detailed information in English about Uchimura. A welcome addition to the fast-growing body of valuable new writing on Japan.
*Choice*

In researching this masterful work, Howes delved deeply into Uchimura’s writings, diaries and letters in order to portray his subject as a passionate yet conflicted man influenced as much by internal pressures as he was by external forces ... With this book, Howes has made an important and detailed contribution to our understanding of Japanese Christians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
*Pacific Affairs, vol. 78, no. 4, winter 2005/2006*

This long-awaited critical biography of Uchimura, by John Howes, professor emeritus of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, represents over fifty years of dedicated study ... The book is skillfully structure, enabling Howes to link his sensitive analysis of Uchimura’s intellectual development to the major events in his life and the world around him.
*International Bulletin of Missionary Research, vol. 30, no. 3, July 2006*