Former Shokason-Jyuku School in Hagi / 松下村塾

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松下村塾は吉田松陰が教鞭をとり、門下生からは多くの勤皇の志士が輩出し、明治以降も国政の中心を担っています。松下村塾から東に向かい小高い丘に登ると、遠くに萩の街を一望出来ます。そこに松陰の生誕地跡がありました。

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Shokason-Jyuku was the private school run by YOSHIDA Shoin (1830-1859) from 1857 to 1858.
It was located to the east side of Hagi city.

If you walk to the south-east from Higashi-Hagi Station, you will see the first "Torii" Gate of Shoin Shrine.
After passing through the first "Torii" Gate, you will see a poor house in the precint of Shoin Shrine.
This house was the school building of "Shokason-Jyuku".

Yoshida Shoin was a lower class of retainer f Choshu Domain.
From 1855, he was confined in his real parent's house, because of his attenmpt to go abroad.
Then, he started to run Shokason-Jyuku in 1857.

The building of Shokason-Jyuku has only two rooms. The number of studens was said fifty.
Most of students were children of low class retainers of Choshu Domain.
One of exceptions was TAKASUGI Shinsaku (1839-1867).
He was the son of a high class retainer and his father ordered him not to go to Shokason-Jyuku.

Next to the former Shokason-Jyuku school, SUGI's family house remains.

YOSHIDA Shoin was confined in this house from 1855 to 1858. As the anti-shogunate movement became more active, he was sent to prison, again.

At his second imprisonment, he admittted the plot to assassinate MANABE Akikatsu (1804-1884) , who was a member of shogun's council of elders. As a results, YOAHIDA Shoin was executed in 1859, when he was twenty-nine years old.

Shoin Shrine was founded in 1890 to deify YOSHIDA Shoin.

The birthplace of YOSHIDA Shoin is located on a small hill. If you walk up a slope to the hill, you will see the scenery of Hagi City. At the foot of the triangle-shaped mountain, the ruins of Hagi Castle is located.

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