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, located in the Yushima neighbourhood of Bunkyo
Bunkyo, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyo is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Soseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived there....
, Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, was constructed as a Confucian temple in the Genroku
Genroku

was a after Jokyo and before Hoei. This period spanned the years from 1688 through 1704. The reigning emperor was .The years of Genroku are generally considered to be the Golden Age of the Edo Period....
 era of the Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
 (end of the 17th century).

Yushima Seido has its origins in a private Confucian temple, the Sensei-den, constructed in 1630 by the neo-Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan
Hayashi Razan

Hayashi Razan , also known as Hayashi Doshun, was a Japanese Neo-Confucianism philosopher, serving as a tutor and an advisor to the first four shoguns of the Tokugawa shogunate....
 (1583-1657) in his grounds at Shinobi-ga-oka (now in Ueno Park
Ueno Park

is a spacious public park located in the Ueno, Tokyo section of Taito, Tokyo, Japan. It occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shogunate shoguns, who had built the temple to guard Edo Castle against the northeast....
). The fifth Tokugawa
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
 shogun
Shogun

is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The Japanese word for "general", it is made up of two kanji characters: sho, meaning "commander", "general", or "admiral", and gun meaning military troops or warriors....
, Tsunayoshi, moved the building to its present site in 1690, where it became the Taiseiden of Yushima Seido.






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, located in the Yushima neighbourhood of Bunkyo
Bunkyo, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyo is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Soseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived there....
, Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, was constructed as a Confucian temple in the Genroku
Genroku

was a after Jokyo and before Hoei. This period spanned the years from 1688 through 1704. The reigning emperor was .The years of Genroku are generally considered to be the Golden Age of the Edo Period....
 era of the Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
 (end of the 17th century).

Tokugawa bureaucrat training center

The Yushima Seido has its origins in a private Confucian temple, the Sensei-den, constructed in 1630 by the neo-Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan
Hayashi Razan

Hayashi Razan , also known as Hayashi Doshun, was a Japanese Neo-Confucianism philosopher, serving as a tutor and an advisor to the first four shoguns of the Tokugawa shogunate....
 (1583-1657) in his grounds at Shinobi-ga-oka (now in Ueno Park
Ueno Park

is a spacious public park located in the Ueno, Tokyo section of Taito, Tokyo, Japan. It occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shogunate shoguns, who had built the temple to guard Edo Castle against the northeast....
). The fifth Tokugawa
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
 shogun
Shogun

is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The Japanese word for "general", it is made up of two kanji characters: sho, meaning "commander", "general", or "admiral", and gun meaning military troops or warriors....
, Tsunayoshi, moved the building to its present site in 1690, where it became the Taiseiden of Yushima Seido. The Hayashi school of Confucianism moved at the same time.

Under the Kansei Edict
Kansei Edict

The Kansei Edict of 1790 enforced the Neo-Confucianism of Zhu Xi as the official Confucian philosophy of Japan. The edict banned any teaching or propagation of heterodox studies, including the teachings of scholars such as Ogyu Sorai and Yamaga Soko, who were enjoying popularity at the time....
, which made neo-Confucianism the official philosophy of Japan, the Hayashi school was transformed into a state-run school under the control of the shogunate in 1797. The school was known as the Shohei-zaka Gakumonsho or Shoheiko, after Confucius’s birthplace at Changping

(??, pronounced Shohei in Japanese). During the time of the Tokugawa shogunate, the school attracted many men of talent, but it was closed in 1871 after the Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure....
.

Yushima Seido's hereditary rectors

  • 1st: Hayashi Razan
    Hayashi Razan

    Hayashi Razan , also known as Hayashi Doshun, was a Japanese Neo-Confucianism philosopher, serving as a tutor and an advisor to the first four shoguns of the Tokugawa shogunate....
     (1583-1657).
  • 2nd: Hayashi Gaho
    Hayashi Gaho

    Hayashi Gaho , also known as Hayashi Shunsai, was a Japanese Neo-Confucianism scholar, teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period....
     (1618-1688).
  • 3rd: Hayashi Hoko (1644-1732).
  • 4th: Hayashi Ryuko (1681-1758).
  • 5th: Hayashi Hokoku (1721-1773).
  • 6th: Hayashi Hotan (1761-1787).
  • 7th: Hayashi Kimpo (1767-1793).
  • 8th: Hayashi Jussai
    Hayashi Jussai

    was a Japanese neo-Confucian scholar of the Edo period. He was an hereditary rector of Edo?s Confucian Academy, the Shohei-ko, also known at the Yushima Seido, which was built on land provided by the shogun....
     (1768-1841)..
  • 9th: Hayashi Teiu (1791-1844).
  • 10th: Hayashi Sokan (1828-1853).
  • 11th: Hayashi Fukusai (1800-1859).
  • 12th: Hayashi Gakusai
    Hayashi Gakusai

    Hayashi Gakusai , formerly Hayashi Noboru, was a neo-Confucian scholar and a bakufu official in the late Tokugawa shogunate....
     (1833-1906).


Institutional history after 1871

Since the Meiji restoration, Yushima Seido has temporarily shared its premises with a number of different institutions, including the Ministry of Education
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)

The , also known as MEXT or Monkasho, is one of the ministries of the Japanese government.The Meiji era government created the first Ministry of Education in 1871....
, the Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo National Museum

Established 1872, the , or TNM, is the oldest and largest museum in Japan. The museum collects, houses, and preserves a comprehensive collection of art works and archaeology objects of Asia, focusing on Japan....
, and the forerunners of today’s Tsukuba University and Ochanomizu University
Ochanomizu University

is one of only two national women's universities in Japan....
 (which is now in a different location but retains 'Ochanomizu' in its name).

The site of the school is now occupied by Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Tokyo Medical and Dental University

offers Bachelor's degree and graduate Academic degree in medicine, dentistry, and related fields. Located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, it has campuses in neighboring Chiyoda, Tokyo and in Chiba Prefecture....
.

The colour scheme of the original Taiseiden is believed to have been one of vermilion
Vermilion

Vermilion, sometimes spelled vermillion, when found naturally occurring, is an opaque Orange ish red pigment, used since antiquity, originally derived from the powdered mineral cinnabar....
 paint with verdigris
Verdigris

Verdigris is the common name for the green coating or patina formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time....
. After being burnt down on a number of occasions, the Taiseiden was rebuilt in 1799 in the style of the Confucian temple in Mito
Mito, Ibaraki

is the Capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and has a central location, moderately offset towards the coast in that prefecture. As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 263,748 and a total area is 217.45 km?, giving a population density of 1,212.91 persons per km?....
, which used black paint. This building survived through the Meiji period and was designated a national historical site in 1922, but was burnt down in the Great Kanto Earthquake of the following year. The current Taiseiden is in reinforced concrete
Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete is concrete in which steel reinforcement bars or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be brittle....
 and was designed by Ito Chuta.

Inside the compound is the world’s largest statue of Confucius, donated in 1975 by the Lions Club of Taipei
Taipei

Taipei has been the de facto capital of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, since the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and the capital of Taiwan since Japanese rule that began in 1895....
 (Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
). There are also statues of the Four Sages, Yan Hui, Zengzi
Zengzi

Zengzi , born Zeng Shen , courtesy name Ziyu , was a Chinese philosopher and Disciples of Confucius of Confucius.He is credited with authorship of a large portion of the Great Learning, including its foreword....
, Kong Ji, and Mencius
Mencius

Mencius , most accepted dates: 372 ? 289 BCE; other possible dates: 385 ? 303/302 BCE) was a Chinese philosophy who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself....
.

In the 1970s, the Taiseiden was used as the location for scenes in NTV
NTV

The name NTV is used by several television broadcasters throughout the world:* Nippon Television - Shiodome, Tokyo, Japan* CJON-TV St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada...
’s Monkey television series.

Along with the nearby Yushima Tenmangu, the Yushima Seido is a mecca for students praying for success in their examinations.

Transportation

Ochanomizu Station
Ochanomizu Station

is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan....
 and Shin-Ochanomizu Station
Shin-Ochanomizu Station

is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line of the Tokyo Metro in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Its station number is C-12.Adjacent stations on the Chiyokda Line are Otemachi Station and Yushima Station ....
 are nearby.

See also

  • Zhu Xi
    Zhu Xi

    Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi was a Song Dynasty Confucianism scholar who became the leading figure of the School of Principle and the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucianism in China....
     or Chu Hsi -- neo-Confucianist teacher
  • Fujiwara Seika
    Fujiwara Seika

    was a Japanese philosopher, a leading neo-Confucian of the early Tokugawa Period and a teacher of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like Hayashi Razan , he had studied in Zen monasteries....
     -- Japanese disciple of Zhu Xi
  • Hayashi clan (Confucian scholars)
    Hayashi clan (Confucian scholars)

    The was a Japanese samurai clan which served as important advisors to the Tokugawa shogunate. Among members of the clan to enjoy powerful positions in the shogunate was its founder Hayashi Razan, who passed on his post as hereditary rector of the neo-Confucianist Shohei-ko school to his son, Hayashi Gaho, who also passed it on to his son, Ha...


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