Nishi Amane Former Residence

This is the residence of the philosopher, Nishi Amane who was the first person to introduce Western philosophy to Japan creating words such as “Tetsugaku” (philosophy) and “Kankaku” (sense), and lived until he was 21 years old at this residence. After the Meiji Restoration, Nishi served consecutively as a bureaucrat in the Army, the Ministry of Education and at the Home Office, and he also participated in the drawing up of the Meiji Constitutional draft. Mori Ogai was a relative of Nishi Amane; his former residence sits across the Tsuwano River directly across from where Ogai’s former residence is built. The thatched main wing of the house and the Amane’s study room which was formerly a storehouse has also been designated as a National Historic Site.