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No.132 Yushima Confucian Shrine
Yushima-Seido

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The success (The Confucius Shrine)


Yushima Confucian Shrine is the place to be deifying Confucius to have established and for 5 brigadier army Tokugawa Tsunayoshi who concentrated on Confucianism to have explained teaching by Confucianism to this place. Moreover, it is the vacant lot where "the Shoheizaka learning place" which was named, taking the place name where Confucius was born from this place existed and it is the place to have played a role of the education center as the national university in the Edo period to the Meiji restoration. Success is made public inside the inside only on the weekend. It will be the place which the foreigner, too, is glad about as the space of the silent Japanese culture in the downtown.
The temple (the success) is the one of present, being burned down, being in the great fire with four times in the Edo period. The success is Great Kanto Earthquake and is the one to have reconstructed burned one by the ferroconcrete appearance in 1935 (1935) but the one where only 入 Tokujiyo was built in 1704 is left just as it is.
It is specified by the historical site in the country in 1922 (1922).


入 Tokujiyo who was built in 1704


Confucius's statue


Prayer of a lot of passes is written at the votive picture tablet.


The character of "the pass"



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