Qualla: Shokasonjuku Academy https://qualla.com/shokasonjuku-academy en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:39 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Shokasonjuku Academy https://qualla.com/shokasonjuku-academy Shokasonjuku Academy: Introduction https://qualla.com/shokasonjuku-academy/ The classroom measures eight tatami mats. Beside it, a ten-mat preparation room and a small earthen-floored entry. That is the entirety of Shokasonjuku Academy -- a wooden building so modest it could be mistaken for a rural shed. From this cramped space in the castle town of Hagi, a teacher named Yoshida Shoin shaped the minds of men who would overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, draft Japan's first modern constitution, and serve as the nation's first prime ministers. He taught here for barely two years before he was executed. He was twenty-nine years old.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/y/j/7/shokasonjuku-academy-wp/wyj7-shokasonjuku-academy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Shokasonjuku Academy: The Teacher Who Tried to Leave Japan https://qualla.com/shokasonjuku-academy/ Yoshida Shoin was born in 1830 into a samurai family of the Choshu Domain. By age eleven he was already lecturing the daimyo Mori Takachika on military strategy. His brilliance was undeniable, but so was his restlessness. He studied the Yamaga school of military thought, which em...

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