Shoin Jinja Shrine and Yoshida Shoin School 松陰神社・松下村塾
|
|
|
Shoin Shrine is dedicated to Yoshida Shoin (1830–1859 吉田松陰), a native of Hagi who was a leading intellectual and educator during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.This is the first torii.
|
|
Yoshida is also noted for trying to stowaway on Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship to go to America and study abroad in 1854. He had an eventful but short life, executed at age 29. In Hagi, the Shoin Shrine is dedicated to him.
This short path to the shrine has various monuments.
|
|
Giant ema wooden prayer tablet with a picture of Yoshida Shoin (right) and student Yamagata Aritomo who became the father of Japanese militarism.
|
|
In 2018, Hagi is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration.
|
|
Marker for the Shoka-sonjuku school as a historical site.
|
|
About the the Shoka-sonjuku school.
|
|
Yoshida's poem.
|
|
QR code for more info in Japanese.
|
|
About the the Shoka-sonjuku school.
|
|
Shoka-sonjuku school. 松下村塾
|
|
Pictures of the school's famous students.
|
|
|
Shoka-sonjuku school. 松下村塾
|
|
|
|
Shoka-sonjuku school lecture room.
|
|
|
|
Portrait of Yoshida Shoin in Shoka-sonjuku school. He taught at the school for only a year. 松下村塾
|
|
Yoshida Shoin's living quarters.
|
|
|
|
|
Yoshida Shoin was confined here in 1855 after being arrested for trying to stowaway on Perry's ship.
|
|
About Yoshida Shoin's confinement.
|
|
Yoshida Shoin was confined here in 1855.
|
|
|
|
The school building is the original from Yoshida's days.
|
|
|
Shoin Jinja Shrine torii.
|
|
|
|
|
Shoin Jinja Shrine dedicated to Yoshida Shoin. 松陰神社
|
|
Inside Shoin Shrine
|
|
|
|
Adjacent to Shoin Shrine is Shomon Shrine that worships the students of Yoshida Shoin. 松門神社
|
|
Shomon Shrine 松門神社
|
|
About Shomon Shrine. 松門神社
|
|
|
|
|
Wishes on a pine tree.
|
|
Amulet shop
|
|
Shrine amulets.
|
|
Ema wooden prayer tablet.
|
|
|
Exiting the shrine's torii.
|
|
Monument indicating a visit by the Emperor and Empress and Crown Prince and Princess.
|
|
Filial piety bamboo.
|
|
Mori Shigetaka's tea room in his villa.
|
|
Monument indicating this place as where the Meiji Restoration started.
|
|
|
|
Happy New Year 2018
|
|
Yoshida Shoin History Museum is also within the shrine grounds. 吉田松蔭歴史館
|
|
Yoshida Shoin's family tree.
|
|
Yoshida Shoin's family when he was a child. (Sugi family)
|
|
Yoshida Shoin with his brother and father.
|
|
Shoin listening to a lecture at the school that hr would later take over.
|
|
Teacher, Mori clan head.
|
|
Yoshida Shoin studying.
|
|
Shoin enters Sakuma Shozan school.
|
|
Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship.
|
|
Commodore Perry's troops.
|
|
Yoshida Shoin riding on a boat to Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship to try and stowaway to America.
|
|
About the Ansei Purge.
|
|
Shoin confined.
|
|
Shoin imprisoned.
|
|
Shoin to be executed. (The museum does not show the decapitation.)
|
|
Historical figures from Choshu (Yamaguchi).
|
|
Leaving Shoin Shrine.
|
|
|
|
|
