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Shokasonjuku Academy

  • Shokasonjuku Academy stands much as it did over 100 years ago, except for re-roofing in 1985. The Shoin Shrine was built in 1907 in the nominated area.
  • Lecture room of the Shokasonjuku Academy.
  • Shokasonjuku Academy.
  • Shoin Yoshida. Many of his students became key figures in the Meiji Restoration and in the subsequent political and industrial modernization in Japan.
Shokasonjuku Academy stands much as it did over 100 years ago, except for re-roofing in 1985. The Shoin Shrine was built in 1907 in the nominated area. Lecture room of the Shokasonjuku Academy. Shokasonjuku Academy. Shoin Yoshida. Many of his students became key figures in the Meiji Restoration and in the subsequent political and industrial modernization in Japan.

A small academy in traditional wooden buildings that was one of the most significant centres of philosophical and political thought, particularly in ways of Western technology, critical to the industrial modernization of Japan.
In 1854 Torajiro Yoshida, a Japanese revolutionary fighter (whose other name is Shoin Yoshida) attempted to stow away on one of Perry's 'Black Ships' and was arrested by the government. In this small academy, Shokasonjuku, he taught Western military technology and politics before his execution at the age of 29. Many of his students became key figures in the Meiji Restoration and drove the subsequent political and industrial modernization of Japan.

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Shokasonjuku Academy
Designation: National historic site
Address: 1537-1 Chinto, Hagi city, Yamaguchi
Tel: 0838-22-4643 (Shoin Shrine)
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