Yushima Seido is a large temple dedicated to Confucius, the founder of Confucianism and a Chinese philosopher.
Yushima Seido was originally built in 1632 by Hayashi Razan, a neo-Confucian scholar, at Ueno shinobu-ga-oka (now in Ueno Park) as a private academy and the Temple of Confucius within the residential grounds.
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After Razan's death, the temple was moved to its present site in Yushima in 1690 by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun. It was renamed the "Taisei-den.
It then became a center of Confucian learning known as the "Shoheiko" , one of the higher educational institutes in Japan.
The Taisei-den and its other buildings were collectively called the "Seido." It was transformed into a state-run school by the Tokugawa shogunate where the bureaucrats of the shogunate and the retainers of feudal lords could be trained in 1797. It was closed as a school in 1871 after the Meiji Restoration.
The wooden temple building was designated by the Japanese government as a Historical Site in 1922, but it was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
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Yushima Seido (Yushima Shrine)
Address: 1-4-25 Yushima, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0034
3 minute walk from Ochanomizu Station
Hours : 9:00 - 17:00 Open Every Day
TEL : 03-3251-4606
Admission : Free
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