Kanzō Uchimura
Kanzō Uchimura (born 26 March 1861; died 28 March 1930) was a Kanzō Uchimura studied at Amherst College, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and Tokyo School of Foreign Languages. Naoya Shiga is recorded as having studied under Kanzō Uchimura. The recorded working language is Japanese.
Also recorded as Uchimura Kanzo · Kanzo Uchimura · Uchimura Kanzou · Uchimura Kanzō
Kanzō Uchimura
益本重雄, 藤沢音吉 · 『内村鑑三伝』,内村鑑三伝刊行会,昭和10年 · Public domain
- Born
- 1861. · Koishikawa.
- Died
- 1930. · Yodobashi.
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Occupation
- writer, philosopher, columnist, essayist and missionary.
- Movements
- Non-church movement and Second Coming Movement.
- Education
- Amherst College, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, Tokyo School of Foreign Languages and Sapporo Agricultural College.
- Known for
- How I Became a Christian, Japan and the Japanese, Consolations of a Christian and Seeking Peace of Mind.
- Languages
- Japanese.
In this article
Life and work
Uchimura worked between 1861 and 1930 across writer, philosopher, religious writer, columnist and essayist and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 59 published texts, 1 digitised documents and 36 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Kanzō Uchimura studied at Amherst College, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and Tokyo School of Foreign Languages. Naoya Shiga is recorded as having studied under Kanzō Uchimura. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with University of Tokyo. Works named in the authority record are How I Became a Christian, Japan and the Japanese, Consolations of a Christian and Seeking Peace of Mind.
Kanzō Uchimura was born on 26 March 1861 in Koishikawa. Uchimura held the nationality of Japan. Uchimura was educated at Amherst College, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, Tokyo School of Foreign Languages and Sapporo Agricultural College. Married to: Shizuko Uchimura. Recorded father: Uchimura Yoshiyuki. Recorded child: Rutsuko Uchimura and Yūshi Uchimura. Recorded sibling: Uchimura Tatsusaburō. Uchimura worked as writer, philosopher, religious writer and columnist, and the authority record catalogues a further 2 occupations under the same name, among them essayist and missionary. Uchimura was active from 1894. Uchimura was employed by University of Tokyo. Uchimura worked in Japanese. Uchimura is placed by the collections within Non-church movement and Second Coming Movement. Uchimura died on 28 March 1930 in Yodobashi. Uchimura is buried at Tama Cemetery.
Writing
Uchimura wrote as well as composed, and is recorded as writer, religious writer and essayist. 4 books and published texts survive in the institutional catalogues, spanning 1893 to 1894. Among them are Consolations of a Christian (1893), Seeking Peace of Mind (1893) and Japan and the Japanese (1894).
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1861–1930
The full dated record · 3 entries
1861
Kanzō Uchimura born at Koishikawa.
1930
Dies at Yodobashi.
1930
Kanzō Uchimura died at Yodobashi.
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Koishikawa.
Birth place
Yodobashi.
Death place
Catalogued output
Books and published writings, as catalogued, 1893–1894
These are texts written by the subject, distinct both from writings about the subject and from printed editions of other people's work. They belong to a run of 4 titles in all, from 1893 to 1894.
3 texts carry dates between 1893 and 1894
The run opens with Consolations of a Christian and closes with Japan and the Japanese
Consolations of a Christian
1893
Seeking Peace of Mind
1893
Japan and the Japanese
1894
Catalogued output
Books and published writings, as catalogued without a settled date
1 further text are catalogued under Uchimura's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. How I Became a Christian.
Catalogued output
Writings on music
These are catalogued publications carrying the name — editions and printings, distinct from the works they contain and from writing about the subject. The 1910s are the densest part of the run, with 9 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
59 editions carry dates between 1895 and 2022
The run opens with The Diary of a Japanese Convert and closes with Primary Sources, Historical Collections
The entries follow Open Library
The Diary of a Japanese Convert
1895
Shūkyō zadan
1900
Uchimura Kanzō shisō sensho
1900
Wie ich ein Christ wurde
1904
Japanische Charakterköpfe
1908
Representative men of Japan
1908
Rakurinshū
1909
Kindai ni okeru kagakuteki shisō no hensen, ichimei, Shinkagaku no fukuin
1910
Kōzui izenki
1911
The complete catalogue · 60
59 editions carry dates between 1895 and 2022
The run opens with The Diary of a Japanese Convert and closes with Primary Sources, Historical Collections
The entries follow Open Library
The Diary of a Japanese Convert
1895
Shūkyō zadan
1900
Uchimura Kanzō shisō sensho
1900
Wie ich ein Christ wurde
1904
Japanische Charakterköpfe
1908
Representative men of Japan
1908
Rakurinshū
1909
Kindai ni okeru kagakuteki shisō no hensen, ichimei, Shinkagaku no fukuin
1910
Kōzui izenki
1911
Kirisutokyō mondō
1912
Chijinron
1912
Kenkyū jūnen
1913
Shokan jūnen
1913
Uchimura Sensei kōenshū
1913
Shūkyō to gense
1914
Shinkō nikki, dated 1919. [Alone with God and me
1922
Kōsei e no saidai ibutsu, hoka nihen
1937
Yo wa ikani shite Kirisuto shinto to narishi ka
1938
Kirisuto shinto no nagusame
1939
Kyūanroku
1939
Kōsei e no saidai ibutsu
1946
Yo wa ikani shite Kirisuto shinto to narishi ya
1947
Roma-sho no kenkyū
1947
Uchimura Kanzō shisō senshū
1949
Uchimura Kanzō
1949
Kirisutokyō wa nan de aru ka
1949
Shitsubō to kibō
1949
Hisenron
1953
Uchimura Kanzo chosakushu
1953
Kaisō no Uchimura Kanzō
1956
Yo wa ikanishite kirisutoshinto to narishika
1957
Ichinichi isshō
1960
Uchimura Kanzō seisho chūkai zenshū
1960
Uchimura Kanzō shū
1964
How I became a Christian
1968
Daihyōteki Nihonjin
1968
Uchimura Kanzō igo yonjūnen
1971
The complete works of Kanzō Uchimura
1971
Uchimura Kanzō zenshū
1980
Eibun zasshi ni yoru Uchimura Kanzō no shisō to shinkō
1983
Kōsei e no saidai ibutsu; Denmaruku-koku no hanashi
1984
Uchimura Kanzō danwa
1984
Uchimura Kanzō Eibun ronsetsu honʾyaku hen
1984
Uchimura Kanzō reijishū
1987
Uchimura Kanzō o kataru
1990
Shakai no henkaku
1990
Seisho no hanashi
1990
Shizen to jinsei
1990
Sei to shi ni tsuite
1990
Uchimura Kanzō senshū
1990
Sekai no naka no Nihon
1990
Kyōiku to katei
1990
Uchimura Kanzō, Okakura Tenshin
2004
The greatest legacy
2005
Uchimura Kanzō, 1861-1930
2011
Representative Men Of Japan; Essays
2018
Primary Sources, Historical Collections
2022
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Christian Prophecy in Japan: Uchimura Kanzō, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2007
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2007
- Kanzō Uchimura, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1963
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1963
reference work
- “Uchimura Kanzō”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q485247: Kanzō Uchimura
Unverified · Wikimedia Foundation
Literature
Further cited scholarship
13 scholarly and reference publications are cited here, each one identified by title and by the publication, publisher or institution that carried it, with its year where the register states one. The cited literature runs from 1963 to 2022, which is a measure of how long Uchimura has been a subject of scholarship rather than of how much has been written. A further 2 records were returned by the same bibliographic registers without enough detail to be cited as a reference — no usable title, or neither a publication nor a date — and they are held in the evidence layer rather than presented here as scholarship. The Encyclopedia cites this literature and does not summarise the arguments of works it has not read in full. Sekine, <i>Uchimura Kanzō: His Interpretation of the Bible and Age of Crisis</i>, Theological Studies in Japan, 2020.
Uchimura Kanzō in "Global History", Theological Studies in Japan, 2022
Kanzo Uchimura (1861–1930), A Reader in Ecclesiology, 2016
Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzō ed. By Shibuya Hiroshi and Chiba Shin (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2015
Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzō
Edited by Shibuya Hiroshi and Chiba Shin, Theological Studies, 2014
The Japanese Political Thought of Uchimura Kanzō (1861–1930): Synthesizing Bushidō, Christianity, Nationalism, and Liberalism (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2010
Christian Prophecy in Japan: Uchimura Kanzō, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2007
Review of: John F. Howes, Japan’s Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzō, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2007
Japan's Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzō, 1861-1930 (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2007
Uchimura Kanzō and his ‘No Church Christianity’: Its Origin and Significance in Early Modern Japan, Religious Studies, 1987
Challenging comparative biography: A review article
Review of: Suzuki Norihisa, Uchimura Kanzō to sono jidai: Shiga Shigetaka to no hikaku, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1976
Kanzō Uchimura -Founder of the Non-Church Movement-, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1964
Kanzō Uchimura -Founder of the Non-Church Movement, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1963
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
scholarly publication
Christian Prophecy in Japan: Uchimura Kanzō, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2007Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
Kanzō Uchimura, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1963Crossref registry
Verifiedreference work
Partially resolvedinstitutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q485247: Kanzō UchimuraWikimedia Foundation
Unverified
Held on the record
Further particulars
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Kanzō Uchimura studied at Amherst College, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, Tokyo School of Foreign Languages and Sapporo Agricultural College. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
His work is associated with Non-church movement and Second Coming Movement. He was employed by University of Tokyo. He belonged to Sapporo band. Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 4: How I Became a Christian, Japan and the Japanese, Consolations of a Christian and Seeking Peace of Mind.
Career and activity
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