Amane Nishi (1829 - 1897)

Nishi was born in Tsuwano province, now located within the Shimane prefecture, Japan
He attended Laiden University, Netherlands, specialising in philosophy and Western studies.
Back in Japan, he worked as an administrator at the Ministry of Education and was President of the Tokyo Normal School.
Nishi is credited with creating the term ‘Shinrigaku’, originally meaning mental philosophy, intellect, sensibilities, and will.
Shinrigaku is now used in Japanese to mean ‘psychology’.

Text: M-N. 2021. M-N. [ONLINE] Available at: https://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/japanese/m-n.html. [Accessed 08 July 2021].

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Author: Ellie Glover (2021) LJMU Student

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