Shuyukan Senior High School
| Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School 福岡県立修猷館高等学校 |
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6-1-10 Nishijin Sawaraku 814-8510 Fukuoka Japan |
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| Coordinates | 33°35′2.02″N 130°21′23.81″E / 33.5838944°N 130.3566139°ECoordinates: 33°35′2.02″N 130°21′23.81″E / 33.5838944°N 130.3566139°E |
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| Type | Public secondary, co-educational |
| Motto | 文武両道 Bunbu Ryōdō |
| Established | February 6, 1784 |
| Grades | 10-12 |
| Enrollment | 1200 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | shuyu |
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Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan Senior High School (福岡県立修猷館高等学校 Fukuoka Kenritsu Shūyūkan Kōtō-gakkō?) is a co-educational public senior high school in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan.
Founded as a Han school in 1784, Edo Period, Shuyukan is one of the oldest high schools in Japan with a history of over 200 years. After the Meiji Restoration, it was transformed into an English vocational school where all subjects were taught in English. Today, it is considered to be among the elite schools in Japan with a number of graduates continuing their studies at prestigious universities in Japan. The name "Shuyu" was taken from a passage in "The Charge to Prince Weizi" from Shangshu, a history text from ancient China. The school logo Rokkosei (Six-Light-Star) is a reference to a poem by Shu Shunsui (1699-1682), and is shaped after the North Star. Just as the North Star remains in the same position, consistently pointing towards the North, the Rokkosei serves as a pilot star that will guide the students throughout their lives towards a certain direction with unwavering faith.
During the Edo period, Kuroda clan became the feudal lord of Chikuzen Province, what is now the Fukuoka Prefecture. The first lord Kuroda Nagamasa strongly believed in the power of both pen and the sword, and encouraged young samurais in his domain to diligently engage not only in military arts but also in literary arts. Nagamasa had a keen interest in a wide range of topics. At a time when Oriental disciplines like Confucian philosophy, Chinese literature and classical Japanese were the mainstream subjects for study, he extended his attention to Occidental philosophy as well, including the Christian bible. Because of the Kuroda family’s continuous enthusiasm in adopting scholarly insights under their rule, Kuroda-han flourished in a variety of academic fields, producing scholars from Confucian philosophy and classical Japanese, to Chinese herbology, agriculture, and medicine. When Kuroda Naritaka (younger brother of Tokugawa Ienari, the eleventh shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate) became the 9th lord of Kuroda-han at a young age in 1783, the advisory board summoned two renowned scholars of the domain, Takeda Sadayoshi and Kamei Nanmei, to each build a school in order to pass on their forbearers’ scholastic ambition to the future generation.
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