| How
Old was Dr. Usui?
From the
Usui Memorial, we know that Dr Usui was born on August 15,
1865 and died in 1926 at the age of 62. For any math whizzes
out there, subtracting the year of his birth from the year
of his death would imply he died at 61, not 62 when he died.
Why does the memorial say he was 62?
The answer
is that Japanese tradition counts age from the theoretical
time of conception not the time of birth. By tradition, a
baby is considered to be 1 year old on the day he or she is
born. |
