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    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...
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    In 1839 at the age of 9, he was taught by a military art instructor at Meirinkan. At the age of 11, his talent was recognized for his excellent performance...
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    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...
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    the first daimyo to return his lands to the Emperor during the abolition of the han system. Meirinkan Tokiyama, Yahachi (1916). 稿本もりのしげり. 時山弥八. p. 124....
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    (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...
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    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...
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    that was the family name of his father-in-law. After studying at the Meirinkan clan military academy, he entered the Kiheitai irregular militia of the...
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    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...
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    a 91 koku retainer of the Chōshū Domain. He attended the han school Meirinkan, where he had outstanding records, and in 1808, served as a page to Mōri...
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    school became a han school of Chōshū Domain and was renamed Yamaguchi Meirinkan. After the Meiji Restoration it became a prefectural secondary school...
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  • Han were Nisshinkan of Aizu, Kohjohkan of Yonezawa, Kohdohkan of Mito, Meirinkan of Choshu, Shin-yukan of Nakatsu, Kohdohkan of Saga, Zohshikan of Satsuma...
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    List of Historic Sites of Japan (Ibaraki) History of education in Japan Meirinkan Shizutani School "Database of Nationally-Designated Cultural Properties...
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    the more famous han schools included Nisshinkan (Aizu), Kōdōkan (Mito), Meirinkan (Hagi, Yamaguchi) and two schools in Kumamoto, Jishūkan and Saishunkan...
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    He studied western science and medicine (rangaku) at the domain school Meirinkan in Hagi, and in Nagasaki. He was then sent to Germany by the Chōshū Domain...
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  • Domain Boat Shed) 6 2413 Former Hagi Domain School - Meirinkan 旧萩藩校明倫館 kyū-Hagi-hankō Meirinkan Hagi han school 34°24′33″N 131°23′56″E / 34.40922966°N...
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    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...
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    samurai in the service of Chōshū Domain. He was educated at the domain’s Meirinkan academy. After the Meiji restoration, in 1868 he travelled to Tokyo and...
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    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)...
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    Han were Nisshinkan of Aizu, Kōjōkan of Yonezawa, Kohdohkan of Mito, Meirinkan of Chōshū, Shin-yukan of Nakatsu, Kohdohkan of Saga, Zōshikan of Satsuma...
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