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42-560: The garden honours Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933), who died in Victoria, British Columbia (now the sister city of Nitobe's home town Morioka ), and whose goal was "to become a bridge across the Pacific". In recognition of his distinguished international service and his efforts to promote a closer understanding between Japan and Canada, friends of Dr. Nitobe and members of

84-732: A 25-volume set from Kyobunkan, 1969–2001. His English and other western language work are collected in the 5 volume Works of Inazo Nitobe , The University of Tokyo Press, 1972. Major critical essays on Nitobe's life and thought were collected in John F. Howes, ed. Nitobe Inazo: Japan's Bridge Across the Pacific (Westview, 1995). Full biography in English is: George M. Oshiro, Internationalist in Pre-War Japan: Nitobe Inazo, 1862–1933 (UBC PhD. Thesis, 1986); and in Japanese by

126-703: A Tanabata event on July 7, 2016. Other events in the year were to run concurrently with events at UBC Botanical Garden to serve as a means of attracting visitors to both the Nitobe Memorial Garden and the UBC Botanical Garden as the gardens move into their second century. https://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/visit/nitobe-memorial-garden/ 49°16′00″N 123°15′35″W  /  49.26667°N 123.25972°W  / 49.26667; -123.25972 Nitobe Inaz%C5%8D Nitobe Inazō ( 新渡戸 稲造 , September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933)

168-926: A conference in Banff, Alberta , of the Institute of Pacific Relations , where the background and research papers from the Japanese delegation largely defended Japanese expansionist policies. On his way home from the conference, Nitobe's pneumonia took a turn for the worse and was rushed to the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, British Columbia , Canada. Following an operation he died on October 15, 1933. Morioka, Nitobe's birthplace, and Victoria have been sister cities since 1985. Mary Elkinton Nitobe lived in Japan until her death in 1938. Mary compiled and edited many of Nitobe's unpublished manuscripts, including his memoirs of early childhood, and contributed greatly to

210-527: A deep impact on the students. Specifically, his parting words, "Boys, be ambitious," have become among the most famous phrases in Japan. He was accompanied by three other MAC alumni, David P. Penhallow , William Penn Brooks and William Wheeler . Cecil Peabody was a professor of mathematics (circa 1878 to 1882). This college is well known in Japan as a successful Japanese-English immersion school, which produced many good English speakers and writers. The early graduates, especially Classes 1880–1885, played

252-719: A directional role in modernizing Japan. In September 1907, it became the College of Agriculture under Tohoku Imperial University in Sendai . In April 1918, the Hokkaido Imperial University was established, and Sapporo Agricultural College was transferred to it. Hokkaido Imperial University was renamed Hokkaido University in December 1947, a name it retains to this day, and Sapporo Agricultural College became its Faculty of Agriculture. This article on

294-628: A female relative Kotoko. He also influenced the establishment of the Friends School in Tokyo. At Johns Hopkins, he participated in the Seminary of History and Politics, a group of graduate students and faculty in history, political science and economics. After his departure from Hopkins in 1887, a colleague read a paper written by Nitobe in 1888, "The Japanese in America,", in which he studied

336-563: A full conflict with Japan's wartime government during World War II , with the result that Yanaihara was barred from teaching until after the war). Nitobe and Hamilton Wright Mabie in 1911 were the first exchange professors between Japan and the United States under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . After World War I, Nitobe joined other international and reform-minded Japanese in organizing

378-541: A fully functional Japanese tea house called Ichibō-an, surrounded by an outer roji tea garden with a waiting bench, and an inner garden. The garden also features several lanterns of different varieties, including a snow viewing lantern and the Nitobe Lantern, featuring carvings of a zodiac, chrysanthemums, a dog (Nitobe's birth sign), and the inscription "I.M., Inazo Nitobe, 1861–1933, Apostle of Goodwill Among Nations", erected by his friends". Another feature of

420-427: A number of impressive features, including references to Japanese philosophy and mythology, shadow bridges visible only at certain times of year, and positioning of a lantern that is filled with light at the exact date and time of Nitobe's death each year. The garden is behind the university's Asian Centre, which is built with steel girders from Japan's exhibit at the 1970 Osaka Expo . The Nitobe Memorial Garden features

462-607: A way to "solve the problem of combining progress with political stability". The book has been criticized as portraying the samurai in terms of Western chivalry which had different interpretations compared to the pre- Meiji period bushido as a system of warrior values that were focused on valor rather than morals. This book nonetheless was a pioneering work of its kind. Nitobe's writings are now available in Nitobe Inazō Zenshū (the Complete Works of Inazo Nitobe),

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504-424: Is a world famous city. For both of these reasons, the garden is able to attract year round visitors. An active marketing and communications department at the UBC Botanical Garden also serves an important role in attracting visitors to the garden. Centennial Celebrations at Nitobe 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of the UBC Botanical Garden. Included in the celebrations were events at the Nitobe Memorial Garden, with

546-653: Is become the Brown Japanese Man's burden. Something must be done to resurrect a dead nation. After Japan suppressed the March First Movement protests in colonial Korea , Nitobe defended Japan's actions in Korea. He said that: Japan is willing to grant Korea six months independence, because Japan is confident that the Koreans would return to them for guidance after the test period is ended. When

588-581: Is now the most widely available work on the subject of bushido . In the West, Bushido: The Soul of Japan has been a best-seller since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, and many influential foreigners read the book, among them US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy , as well as Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scouts. It suggested to H. G. Wells

630-820: The House of Peers in the Japanese Imperial Parliament ; and he delivered a speech against militaristic prime minister Giichi Tanaka in the aftermath of the Huanggutun Incident (1928). He held critical views on increasing militarism in Japan in the early 1930s, and was devastated by Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933 over the Manchurian Crisis and the Lytton Report . In October 1933, Nitobe attended

672-853: The League of Nations was established in 1920, Nitobe became one of the Under-Secretaries General of the League, and moved to Geneva , Switzerland. He became the director of the International Bureaux Section, in charge of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (which later became UNESCO under the United Nations ' mandate). His legacy in this period includes the settlement of territorial dispute between Sweden and Finland over Swedish-speaking Åland . In its resolution,

714-580: The Garden. Mori arrived early in 1959 and stayed at the University until after the official opening of the garden in June, 1960. The case of Nitobe Memorial Garden's restoration represents the problems all historic preservation can face. As Mori recognized, the maintenance of a Japanese garden, more than any other style of garden in the world, requires significant collaboration. With a proper maintenance plan,

756-532: The General Assembly of the League was the first objective report on Esperanto by a high-ranking official representative of an intergovernmental organization. Although the proposal for the League to accept Esperanto as their working language was accepted by ten delegates, the French delegate used his veto power to block the issue. After his retirement from the League of Nations, Nitobe briefly served in

798-575: The Islands remained under the Finnish control, but adopted complete disarmament (i.e., no military presence on the islands and its citizens are exempt from military service) and granted autonomy, averting a possible armed conflict (See also Åland crisis ). In August 1921, Nitobe took part in the 13th World Congress of Esperanto in Prague, as the official delegate of the League of Nations. His report to

840-704: The Japan Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations . Nitobe has been described by the Nitobe College at Hokkaido University as the "academic pillar of support for Japan when it expanded its colonies and its rule/control in Asia". He was a strong advocate for Japan's colonization of Korea , which he described as a "literally a one-in-a-million chance". He argued that Japan was on a noble civilizing mission in Korea. He described Korea in an October 1906 essay entitled "A Decaying Nation" as feeling like it

882-527: The Japanese community in Vancouver, and the Government of Japan erected a permanent stone memorial on the campus of UBC. However, the memorial garden was ruined during World War II, possibly due to anti‐Japanese feelings at the time. Afterwards, the Japanese community in Vancouver and the Government of Japan agreed to build the current Nitobe Memorial Garden. Most of the construction costs were covered by

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924-419: The Japanese garden outside of Japan can be a place where an institution and community collaborate, promoting cultural understanding through the process. However, once a garden lacks proper management, it can become a place of humiliation and cultural misunderstanding. The Nitobe Memorial Garden has also been the subject of more than fifteen years' study by a UBC professor, who believes that its construction hides

966-653: The Japan–Canada Society in Tokyo, and a fund‐raising campaign by the Japanese community in Vancouver, although some grants were received from The Canada Council and The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation. The Japan–Canada Society in Tokyo contributed over $ 21 000 and the Japanese Canadian community in B.C. collected over $ 7000. Through the offices of the Japan Consul, the Government of Japan selected Kannosuke Mori (1894–1960) from Chiba University to design

1008-845: The Sapporo Agricultural College, but was ordered first to obtain a doctorate in agricultural economics in Germany. He completed his degree after three years in Halle University and returned briefly to the United States to marry Mary Elkinton in Philadelphia before he assumed his teaching position in Sapporo in 1891. When he returned to Japan, he had published books in English and in German and had received

1050-907: The Sugar Bureau. Nitobe was appointed a full professor of law at the Kyoto Imperial University in 1904 and lectured on colonial studies. He became the headmaster of the First Higher School (then the preparatory division for the Tokyo Imperial University ) in 1906 and continued this position until he accepted the full-time professorship at the Law Faculty of Tokyo Imperial University in 1913. He taught agricultural economics and colonial studies and emphasized humanitarian aspect of colonial development and critical assessment of colonialism, and

1092-669: The deputy secretary general of the League of Nations . He also devoted himself to women's education , helping to found the Tsuda Eigaku Juku and serving as the first president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and president of the Tokyo Women's College of Economics. He was also a strong advocate for Japanese colonialism , and described Korean people as "primitive". Nitobe was born in Morioka , Mutsu Province (present-day Iwate Prefecture ). His father Nitobe Jūjirō

1134-573: The first of his five doctorate degrees. Nitobe continued his teaching tenure at Sapporo until 1897 as he took leave from the college. He spent three years writing first in Japan and later in California. One of the books that he wrote during that period was Bushido: The Soul of Japan . In 1901, Nitobe was appointed technical advisor to the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan , where he headed

1176-438: The first official missions sent from Japan to the United States, beginning in 1860. He later returned to Hopkins in December 1890, when he presented a paper on "Travel and Study in Germany." Also in 1890, Johns Hopkins presented Nitobe with an honorary bachelor's degree in recognition of his accomplishments despite not earning a PhD from Hopkins. While at Johns Hopkins, he was granted an assistant professorship at his alma mater,

1218-458: The garden is its pond, which supports a small ecosystem of fish as well as some water skimming insects. First time visitors to the garden will benefit from reading the self-guided tour handout, as the Zen garden has no signs indicating the correct way to walk its irregular paths, as signs would be considered a distraction. It is recommended to spend around 45-minutes to fully immerse into and appreciate

1260-693: The level of research in Tokyo, he quit the university and sought study opportunities in the United States. In 1884, Nitobe traveled to the United States where he stayed for three years, and studied economics and political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , Maryland . In Baltimore, he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It was through a Quaker community in Philadelphia that he met Mary Patterson Elkinton , whom he eventually married. Their only child died in infancy, but they adopted Nitobe's nephew, Yoshio, and

1302-532: The natural beauty and symbolism the Nitobe Garden offers to travellers, which also offers alternative paths other than the gravel path surrounding the perimeter of the pond. The garden attracts visitors in many different ways. From daily tour groups, visitors, and weddings, the garden attracts visitors from all over the world. The garden is set on one of the largest university campuses in Canada and Vancouver

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1344-445: The preservation of his writings. Nitobe published many scholarly books as well as books for general readers (see below). He also contributed hundreds of articles to popular magazines and newspapers. Nitobe, however, is perhaps most famous in the west for his work Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900), which was one of the first major works on samurai ethics and Japanese culture written originally in English for Western readers (The book

1386-553: The same author: Nitobe Inazo, Kokusai-shugi no Kaitakusha (Chūō Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1992). The most detailed account of Nitobe's life after his tenure in the League of Nations, available in English, is: Nitobe Inazo, The Twilight Years , by Uchikawa Eiichiro (Kyobunkwan, 1985). Six (6) critical essays on Nitobe's legacy are included in Why Japan Matters! , vol. 2, edited by Joseph F. Kess and Helen Lansdowne ( University of Victoria , 2005), pp. 519–573, 655–663. His portrait

1428-727: The same time included Uchimura Kanzō . Nitobe and his friends were baptized by an American Methodist Episcopal missionary Bishop M. C. Harris . Nitobe's decision to study agriculture was caused by the hope expressed by Emperor Meiji that the Nitobe family would continue to advance the field of agricultural development (Nitobe's father had developed former wasteland in the north of the Nambu domain near present-day Towada , now part of Aomori Prefecture, into productive farmland). In 1883, Nitobe entered Tokyo Imperial University for further studies in English literature and in economics. Disappointed by

1470-511: Was a samurai and retainer to the local daimyō of the Nanbu clan . His grandfather was Nitobe Tsutō and his great-grandfather was Nitobe Denzō (Koretami). One of his cousins was Nitobe Inao  [ ja ] . His infant name was Inanosuke. Nitobe left Morioka for Tokyo in 1871 to become the heir to his uncle, Ōta Tokitoshi , and adopted the name Ōta Inazō. He later reverted to Nitobe when his older brother Nitobe Shichirō died. Nitobe

1512-404: Was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer. He studied at Sapporo Agricultural College under the influence of its first president William S. Clark and later went to the United States to study agricultural policy. After returning to Japan, he served as a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College, Kyoto Imperial University , and Tokyo Imperial University , and

1554-629: Was a school in Sapporo , Hokkaidō established in September 1875 for the purpose of educating students in the agriculture industry. The first president of the college was Zusho Hirotake . Dr. William Smith Clark , a graduate of Amherst College and the president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (MAC) was appointed as the vice president of the college. Clark taught in Sapporo only eight months but left

1596-432: Was cross-appointed the founding president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University (Tokyo Joshi Dai). His students at Tokyo Imperial University included Tadao Yanaihara , Shigeru Nanbara, Yasaka Takagi, and Tamon Maeda. (Yanaihara later continued Nitobe's chair in colonial studies at Tokyo University ; but Yanaihara's pacifist views and emphasis on indigenous self-determination, which he partly inherited from Nitobe, came into

1638-597: Was featured on the Series D of ¥ 5000 banknote, printed from 1984 to 2004. The Nitobe Memorial Garden at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada, is named in his honour. A second memorial garden has been built at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, British Columbia , Canada Sapporo Agricultural College Sapporo Agricultural College ( 札幌農学校 , Sapporo nōgakkō )

1680-524: Was in the second class of the Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University ). He was converted to Christianity under the strong legacy left by William S. Clark , the first Vice-Principal of the College, who had taught in Sapporo for eight months before Nitobe's class arrived in the second year after the opening of the college and so they never personally crossed paths. Nitobe's classmates who converted to Christianity at

1722-421: Was subsequently translated into Japanese and many other languages). The reception and impact of Bushido: The Soul of Japan were quite different in Japan and the West, however, with Japanese scholars such as Inoue Tetsujirō and Tsuda Sōkichi  [ ja ] criticizing or dismissing the book. It was not until the 1980s that Bushido: The Soul of Japan reached the height of its popularity in Japan, and

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1764-427: Was technologically 3,000 years behind Japan, and that Koreans were so "bland, unsophisticated and primitive that they belong not to the twentieth or the tenth—nor indeed to the first century. They belong to a prehistoric age". He further argued that: The settlement of Korea must be given special attention. A poor effeminate people, with no political instinct, with no economic 'gumption', with no intellectual ambition,

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