 Last additions - Shoin Jinja Shrine and Yoshida Shoin School 松陰神社・松下村塾 |
Leaving Shoin Shrine.Aug 03, 2018
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Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship.Aug 03, 2018
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Historical figures from Choshu (Yamaguchi).Aug 03, 2018
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Shoin to be executed. (The museum does not show the decapitation.)Aug 03, 2018
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Shoin imprisoned.Aug 03, 2018
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Shoin confined.Aug 03, 2018
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About the Ansei Purge.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin riding on a boat to Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship to try and stowaway to America.Aug 03, 2018
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Commodore Perry's troops.Aug 03, 2018
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Shoin enters Sakuma Shozan school.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin studying.Aug 03, 2018
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Teacher, Mori clan head.Aug 03, 2018
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Shoin listening to a lecture at the school that hr would later take over.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin with his brother and father.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin's family when he was a child. (Sugi family)Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin's family tree.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin History Museum is also within the shrine grounds. 吉田松蔭歴史館Aug 03, 2018
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Happy New Year 2018Aug 03, 2018
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Monument indicating this place as where the Meiji Restoration started.Aug 03, 2018
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Mori Shigetaka's tea room in his villa.Aug 03, 2018
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Filial piety bamboo.Aug 03, 2018
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Monument indicating a visit by the Emperor and Empress and Crown Prince and Princess.Aug 03, 2018
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Exiting the shrine's torii.Aug 03, 2018
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Ema wooden prayer tablet.Aug 03, 2018
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Shrine amulets.Aug 03, 2018
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Amulet shopAug 03, 2018
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Wishes on a pine tree.Aug 03, 2018
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About Shomon Shrine. 松門神社Aug 03, 2018
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Shomon Shrine 松門神社Aug 03, 2018
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Adjacent to Shoin Shrine is Shomon Shrine that worships the students of Yoshida Shoin. 松門神社Aug 03, 2018
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Inside Shoin Shrine Aug 03, 2018
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Shoin Jinja Shrine dedicated to Yoshida Shoin. 松陰神社Aug 03, 2018
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Shoin Jinja Shrine torii.Aug 03, 2018
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The school building is the original from Yoshida's days.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin was confined here in 1855.Aug 03, 2018
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About Yoshida Shoin's confinement.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin was confined here in 1855 after being arrested for trying to stowaway on Perry's ship.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida Shoin's living quarters.Aug 03, 2018
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Portrait of Yoshida Shoin in Shoka-sonjuku school. He taught at the school for only a year. 松下村塾Aug 03, 2018
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Shoka-sonjuku school lecture room.Aug 03, 2018
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Shoka-sonjuku school. 松下村塾Aug 03, 2018
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Pictures of the school's famous students.Aug 03, 2018
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Shoka-sonjuku school. 松下村塾Aug 03, 2018
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About the the Shoka-sonjuku school.Aug 03, 2018
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QR code for more info in Japanese.Aug 03, 2018
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Yoshida's poem.Aug 03, 2018
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About the the Shoka-sonjuku school.Aug 03, 2018
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Marker for the Shoka-sonjuku school as a historical site.Aug 03, 2018
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In 2018, Hagi is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration.Aug 03, 2018
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Giant ema wooden prayer tablet with a picture of Yoshida Shoin (right) and student Yamagata Aritomo who became the father of Japanese militarism.Aug 03, 2018
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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.Aug 03, 2018
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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.Aug 03, 2018
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