Yushima Seidō
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Yushima Seidō, is a Confucian temple in Yushima, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in the late 17th century, during the Genroku era of the Edo period. Towards the late Edo period, one of the mo
Taiseiden (Main Hall) of the Yushima Seidō
The Yushima Seido, c. 1830
The 1872 exhibition at the Yushima Seido, considered the founding event of the Tokyo National Museum (ukiyo-e print)
Ruins of the temple following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake
Tokugawa Yoshinao
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Tokugawa Yoshinao was a Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period.
Yushima Seidō
…most important educational institutions of the shogunate, the Shōhei-zaka Gakumonjo (昌平坂学問所)), or Shōheikō (昌平黌), was founded on its grounds. In 1632, Tokugawa Yoshinao, the 9th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu and daimyō of Owari Domain was granted permission to build an academy in Edo for the study and propagation of Confucianism…
Tokugawa Yoshinao
Okame no Kata, Yoshinao's mother
Gate to the Mausoleum of Tokugawa Yoshinao at Jōkō-ji, Seto