The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Yushima Seido
I've walked past this building a hundred times from Ochanomizu station. It's hidden in plain sight. The black walls are extraordinary — there's nothing else like them in the city.
The Tokugawa shogunate's official Confucian academy, founded 1691. One of the only surviving black-lacquered Confucian halls in Japan. The Tokyo University of Tokyo's intellectual lineage traces directly here.
— Hana, The Historian
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