Background
Kamenosuke Nagasawa was born in 1860.
Kamenosuke Nagasawa was born in 1860.
After finishing normal school at Nagasaki studied mathematics at home by himself and later moving to Tokyo assisted Chorin Kawakita in teaching mathematics.
Then began writing textbooks, which were used at most grade schools in Japan. Compiled six mathematical treatises. Late in life took to the study of the abacus.