In the wake of the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent drive to modernise the country, the newly founded Japanese Ministry of Education introduced a revised school system based strictly on the American model. Private Buddhist schools (寺子屋 terakoya, "temple schools") were nationalised. Schools run by the former domains were converted into middle schools, fostering education for all children with no distinction between samurai and commoners. While school administration was...
Kaichi School Museum
Kaichi School Museum