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*''Japanese'': 造士館 ''(zoushikan)''

*''Japanese'': 造士館 ''(zoushikan)''

The ''Zôshikan'' was a [[han school|domain school]] established in [[Kagoshima]] by [[Shimazu Shigehide]] in [[1773]].

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 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]]'', 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).

==References==

==References==

*"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/culture/culture25.html Zôshikan]," ''Shimazu-ke ga hagukunda bunka'', [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] official website.

*"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/culture/culture25.html Zôshikan]," ''Shimazu-ke ga hagukunda bunka'', [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] official website.

[[Category:Historic Buildings]]

[[Category:Historic Buildings]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]