Meirinkan information

Meirinkan (明倫館) was a han school located in the Chōshū Domain of Japan. The school was one of the three major educational institutions in Japan, along...

(長岡 南陽) who was a feudal retainer of Tokuyama Domain. After studying at Meirinkan, he graduated from the Imperial Military Academy in 1878 and from the...

mother and elder half-sister Yaeko to illnesses. Katsura was educated at Meirinkan, in which he later became increasingly unhappy with and defied his father...

started off as a petty official at the Chōshū Domain and then at the Meirinkan. Later, he served the territorial magistrate (daikan), going from village...

domain (present day Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture), Inoue attended the Meirinkan domain school with his brother Ikutarō (幾太郎). He was a close boyhood friend...

school became a han school of Chōshū Domain and was renamed Yamaguchi Meirinkan. After the Meiji Restoration it became a prefectural secondary school...

the more famous han schools included Nisshinkan (Aizu), Kōdōkan (Mito), Meirinkan (Hagi, Yamaguchi) and two schools in Kumamoto, Jishūkan and Saishunkan...

Han were Nisshinkan of Aizu, Kōjōkan of Yonezawa, Kohdohkan of Mito, Meirinkan of Chōshū, Shin-yukan of Nakatsu, Kohdohkan of Saga, Zōshikan of Satsuma...

Chōshū Navy with a 102 koku territory. After studies at the domain's Meirinkan Academy (where he studied the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū school of Japanese swordsmanship)...

learning and martial arts, and in 1748, he opened the Naitokukan (later Meirinkan), han school open to both samurai and commoners. He also made wax an important...