Han school
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The han school was a type of educational institution in the Edo period of Japan. They taught samurai etiquette, the classical Confucian books, calligraphy, rhetoric, fighting with swords and other wea
The Shintokukan han school of the Takatō Domain that opened in 1860
A room in the Kōdōkan
Training grounds of the Matsushiro Literary and Military School
Nisshinkan
Meirinkan
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Meirinkan was a han school located in the Chōshū Domain of Japan. The school was one of the three major domain academies in Bakumatsu period Japan, along with the Kōdōkan in Mito Domain and Shizutani
Han school
…were about 250 han schools and around 40,000 commoner schools in Japan. Some of the more famous han schools included Nisshinkan (Aizu), Kōdōkan (Mito), Meirinkan (Hagi, Yamaguchi) and two schools in Kumamoto, Jishūkan and Saishunkan. Han schools emulated each other and the Shōheikō, but were not subordinate to…
Hagi Municipal Meirin Elementary School, built on the site of the former Hagi Meirin-kan school.
Former Meirinkan School
Hagi-Meirinkan 2nd Bldg (World Heritage Guidance Center)
South gate