The was a Japanese
military academy. It was set up in the final decades of the
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
as part of Japan's defensive preparations in response to Western
military coercion, and taught Western-style battlefield tactics such as artillery use alongside traditional
Japanese martial arts
Japanese martial arts refers to the variety of martial arts native to the country of Japan. At least three Japanese terms (''budō'', ''bujutsu'', and ''bugei'') are used interchangeably with the English phrase Japanese martial arts.
The usage ...
.
The academy was located in
Misakichō, Tokyo.
It closed in 1866, after only ten years in operation.
References
Educational organizations based in Japan
Defunct Japanese military academies
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