Abstract
After Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) demanded the opening of Japan to the world in 1853, renowned Japanese thinker and educator Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) visited the United States of America twice, in 1860 and 1867. Fukuzawa translated into Japanese Thomas Jefferson’s drafted “The Declaration of Independence” (1776), the democratic spirit of which he incorporated into his own million seller An Encouragement of Learning (1872). While Fukuzawa promoted Japan’s modernization and reform of its education system by advocating the Anglo-American example, it is also true that influence went the other way, too, with traditional Japanese literature shaping western modernist writings around the turn of the century during the heyday of Japonisme.
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