I just started this article additions and further editing highly appreciated The information is mostly based on the first article cited as an external link as it was the best I could find but some of it is based off other things I ve read Sources do no agree on the number of samurai selected to study English under MacDonald My Japanese texbook has an article that claims 12 and I have a tendency to believe that but I ve found more online sources proclaiming 14 so that is the number I used in the article I also saw 7 mentioned somewhere 22 31 Apr 18 2005 UTC