In the period of Meiji Restoration and the domestication of western scholarship, Tokyo Imperial University represented the transplant from western academic circle, while the establishment of Koto Imperial University reveals the attempt to counter the over-westernized academic atmosphere. This article ill examine the thoughts of Naito Konan, one of the initiators of Kyoto School, to explore one face of the multi-meaning ”Orient.” Naito's noted theories reveal his using western historical view without abandoning China as the subject of study. However, comparing Naito with Shiratori Kurakichi, one of the beginners of Oriental historiography, using the critique from Tachibana Shiraki, we could conclude that although Naito centered China in his theories, the loss of Chinese subjectivity is underway drastically.