Joseph Hardy Neesima LL.D, President of Doshisha University, Kyoto

Davis, Reverend J.D. (Jerome Dean)

Published by Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1905

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[3rd Edition of Joseph Hardy Neesima Biography]. At the head of the title page reads, "A Maker of New Japan," third edition, brown cloth, 16 black and white plates including a frontispiece portrait of Neesima, 156 pp. Joseph Hardy Neesima, a Japanese educated and ordained a Christian minister in America, bridged the gap between the Christian faith in the United States and the newly opened Meiji era Japan. He is probably best known as the founder of Doshisha University in Kyoto. The biography starts with birth in 1843 in Tokyo. In June of 1864 he began his one year voyage to Boston on the American schooner the Wild Rover. The owner of the ship, Alpheus Hardy, took him under his care and provided for his education at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass and Amherst College where he graduated in 1874. He was ordained an "evangelist" and appointed to the Japan Mission of the American Board. He returned to Japan in December of 1874 after raising funds to found a Christian college in his native country. The Christian school he first established was the genesis of the Doshisha University in Kyoto. The biography traces his life to his death in 1890. The biography was written by a close associate of Neesima and first published in the year of his death. It provides a remarkably detailed and well informed account of the man, his commitment to the Christian faith and his accomplishments, goals and ideals. ~~ There is a private library bookplate (Ivanhoe Sunday School, Elgin Illinois) inside the front cover. Bottom edge untrimmed. Minor foxing outside the text pages but internally very clean.

Seller Inventory # 1905041226

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Joseph Hardy Neesima LL.D, President of Doshisha University, Kyoto
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • 19th Century Japan