Abstract: As an advocator and practitioner of modern Japanese womens higher education, Tsuda Umeko devoted her whole life to the cause of education. She established Joshi Eigaku Juku（now Tsuda University）and provided vocational education for women to enhance their social status. Not only that, Umeko is committed to creating “all round women”, that is, to cultivate perfect women with professional skills and elegant character. In the field of womens education at that time, as a new common sense, a mainstream ideology and value orientation, the authority of “virtuous wife and good mother” type womens education was selfevident. From this perspective, Tsuda Umekos idea and practice of womens higher education were innovative and unique. As an explorer and pioneer in history, Tsuda Umeko tried to construct a harmonious relationship between the secular ideas and her own educational ideas, and promoted her own new educational thoughts through persistence and compromise.

Key words: Tsuda Umeko, Japan, modern times, women's education, Joshi Eigaku Juku