Yushima Seido

Established in Japan at the same time as the first Buddhist temples, the Confucian temples were flourishing during the Tokugawa Shogunate. Photographed here is Yushima Seido, one of the most important Confucian temples in Japan.

It was a private school of the Neo-Confucianist scholar Hayashi Razan, a tutor and an advisor to the first four shōguns of the Tokugawa bakufu. Originally built in the area of Ueno Park, the Yushima Seido temple was moved on its current location, in Bunkyō, during the period of the fifth Tokugawa shōgun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.