Just before the dawn: the life and work of Ninomiya Sontoku

This book is the most complete biography of the brilliant Edo period educator, economist, and thinker Ninomiya Kinjiro (Sontoku) available in English. It offers hundreds of pages of translations of lectures, pamphlets, and studies in Japanese, in a leisurely, readable format, accessible for readers of any cultural background. This Kindle condition contains over a dozen Japanese illustrations, imported from the 1912 text, and has been hand-edited and carefully corrected to be comfortable to read and free of errors on any Kindle device. It is DRM free and thus easy to quote.R.C. Armstrong (1876-1929) was a Canadian Christian missionary who loved Japan and had a deep respect for Eastern thought. His remarkable understanding of the Japanese mind and Japanese history and religion is shown in every page of this biography of Ninomiya Sontoku. He treated the truths known to the Japanese as independent, but did not hesitate to note relevant parallels to the Christian faith. Read more