Uchimura Kanzo was one of Japan's foremost thinkers. His ideasinfluenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religiousleaders. The originator and proponent of a particularly"Japanese" form of Christianity known as mukyokai, Uchimurastruggled with the tensions between his love for the homeland and hislove for God. Articulate, prolific, passionate, and profound, he earneda reputation as the most consistent critic of his society andknowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible.Through this exceptional man's life, John Howes charts what itmeant to live during the introduction of Christianity to Japan.