shohei-ko

Updated: November 27, 2024

"Shohei" is the Japanese pronunciation of "Changping," Confucius's birthplace, and the school was known as the Shohei-ko. It received uniform patronage at the hands of the Tokugawa, whose kinsmen and vassals were required to study there, their proficiency, as determined by its examinations, being counted a passport to office.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era