Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline ...

116 CASE STUDIES72 Oku, 176–177.73 Oku, 38–40.74 The lists from the registers printed in Tsunetō, 128–141.75 According to Tsunetō, 58–59, Seisai studied there for three yearsfrom 1861; on Seisai’s studies see also Oku, 16; 185–229.76 Tsunetō, 163.77 He visited Seisō in 1859; Tsunetō, 162; see also Oku, 159.78 Tsunetō, 141–144.79 Butsusan, the literary name he took when he was 23, is the nameby which he is usually known. The most detailed biography ofButsusan and his juku, based on primary sources (mainly hisdiaries and poetry), is Tomoishi Takayuki, Murakami Butsusan: arueijin no shōgai (Fukuoka: Miyako bunka konwakai, 1955).80 Koga Takeo, Murakami Butsusan o meguru hitobito: bakumatsu Buzennonōson shakai (Fukuoka-ken Miyako-gun, Toyotsu: by the author,1990), 275–280.81 List in Tomoishi, 241–3.82 Tomoishi, 37–41.83 Tomoishi, 39–40.84 Tomoishi, 19.85 Tomoishi, 43–44.86 Tomoishi, 36–37; Koga, 291–298.87 Tomoishi, 50–53.88 Tomoishi, 34.89 Tomoishi, 34; Koga, 173–174.90 Koga, 152–155; he mentions two other incidents. Butsusan doesnot record what exactly happened.91 Tomoishi, 213–219.92 For a description of the premises today see Kyōiku shisetsu nokenchikutekikenkyū, 44; the plan there is very similar to that ofZōshun’en.93 Tomoishi, 67.94 Tōkyō nichinichi shinbun, 29 November 1891, Murakami Butsusanjūsan nen ki, quoted from Shinbun shūsei Meiji hennenshi, 15 vols.,ed. Meiji Hennenshi hensankai (Zaisei keizai gakukai, 1936), 8:156–157.