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The is a Confucian temple in the Wakasa district of Naha, Okinawa. It served for centuries as a major center of Chinese learning for the Ryūkyū Kingdom, and contains within its precincts the Meirindō, first public school〔By the US, Canadian, Australian usage of the term, referring to a school run by the local government and not by a private agency or institution.〕 in Okinawa.〔Information plaque on site at the temple. Viewed 11 March 2008.〕 ==History== The current temple was built in 1975, as a rebuilding of an older temple located a short distance away, near what is now a major highway, Japan National Route 58.〔(施設案内 ). Kume-Shiseibyou Official Site. Accessed 1 August 2008.〕 The original temple was built in 1671-75 as a gift to the Ryūkyū Kingdom from the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.〔Kerr, George H. ''Okinawa: The History of an Island People''. revised ed. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2000. pp194,221.〕 It served as the primary Confucian temple of the kingdom, and would soon become a center of learning within Kumemura, the community of scholars and bureaucrats which was the center of Chinese culture and learning in the kingdom. In 1718, local official Tei Junsoku, magistrate of Kumemura, and something of an unofficial minister of education,〔Kerr. p204.〕 established the Meirindō, the first formal educational institute in the kingdom, as a center of learning for the Kumemura community of scholar-bureaucrats. Following the abolition of the kingdom and annexation of Okinawa by Japan in 1879, the Kumemura community, along with the Meirindō school and the temple as a whole, fell into decline. The Meirindō became a municipal office and public school〔 under the national education system established under the Meiji government. Historian George Kerr cites a July 1910 newspaper advertisement as the last evidence of public interest in annual ceremonial visits to the temple by those who had lived in the time of the Ryūkyū Kingdom.〔Kerr. p445.〕 The temple was destroyed in the 1945 battle of Okinawa and rebuilt in 1975 on the premises of the Tensonbyō, a smaller Confucian temple in the Wakasa area also destroyed in the battle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shiseibyō」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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