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| + | [[File:Zoshikan-enbukan.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Stele in Kagoshima's Central Park, marking the former site of the Zôshikan and [[Enbukan]]]] |
| *''Established: [[1773]]'' | | *''Established: [[1773]]'' |
| *''Destroyed: [[1877]]'' | | *''Destroyed: [[1877]]'' |
| *''Japanese'': 造士館 ''(zoushikan)'' | | *''Japanese'': 造士館 ''(zoushikan)'' |
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− | The ''Zôshikan'' was a [[han school|domain school]] established in [[Kagoshima]] by [[Shimazu Shigehide]] in [[1773]]. Its first head instructor was [[Yamamoto Masayoshi]].<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Kei, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 245.</ref> | + | The ''Zôshikan'' was a [[han school|domain school]] established in [[Kagoshima]] by [[Shimazu Shigehide]] in [[1773]]. Its first head instructor was [[Yamamoto Masayoshi]].<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Megumi, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 245.</ref> |
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− | The school covered some 3,350 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'', and included lecture halls, a small shrine called the Senseiden, and lodgings for [[samurai]] students who came from outside of the city. [[Tachibana Nankei]], a scholar from [[Kyoto]] who visited Kagoshima in [[1782]]-[[1783]], wrote that it was large and beautiful, the best in the realm (i.e. in all of Japan). | + | The school covered some 3,350 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'' on the site of the domain's chief Confucian Hall (''seidô'' or ''senseiden''), and included lecture halls and lodgings for [[samurai]] students who came from outside of the city. It was established simultaneously with a school of martial arts known as the [[Enbukan]]. [[Tachibana Nankei]], a scholar from [[Kyoto]] who visited Kagoshima in [[1782]]-[[1783]], wrote that it was large and beautiful, the best in the realm (i.e. in all of Japan). The school was officially named "Zôshikan" in [[1786]]. |
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| As a result of succession disputes within the [[Shimazu clan]] in [[1808]]-[[1809]] (eventually ending in [[Shimazu Narinobu]] abdicating in favor of [[Shimazu Narioki]]), the curriculum of the school departed from its earlier purposes of training men for service. [[Shimazu Nariakira]] later lamented this change, and took steps to revive the quality of education at the school. | | As a result of succession disputes within the [[Shimazu clan]] in [[1808]]-[[1809]] (eventually ending in [[Shimazu Narinobu]] abdicating in favor of [[Shimazu Narioki]]), the curriculum of the school departed from its earlier purposes of training men for service. [[Shimazu Nariakira]] later lamented this change, and took steps to revive the quality of education at the school. |