Chidokan

Old School for young Samurai 若き武士の学び舎

Amazing it is still there, the old school for young Samuraiunder King Sakai , as it used to be. Subject included localized Analects of Confucius ethics. 昔の酒井家の藩校が今もそのまま残っているとは驚きです。鶴岡風土にあった解釈と、発音の論...

Limited interest as all signs in Japanese & English pamphlet very brief

Worth a look in if you are in the area. Free entry but not much more can be learnt than from a good travel book or quick Google search. Shame not more is translated into English.

It's Free! Worth a look

The Chidokan is a free museum on the grounds of the old samurai school. It is quite interesting and they have a free pamphlet at the gate in English. They also ask that you sign their visitor book. ...

Interesting historic visit to this class school

Original Text

The Shonai Class School is near other tourist structures (the Art Art Forum, the Chohôkan Museum, the Fujisawa Shuhei Museum etc.) it is therefore inevitable to go there ...

it's a clan school of the shonai domain founded in 1805.

Original Text

　On the southeast side near Tsuruoka Park, there was an old and magnificent group of buildings called "Chidokan". This Chidokan is a clan school founded in 1805 by ９ Tadanori Sakai, the lord of the Shonai clan. Omote gate, mausoleum, auditorium, Miiruma, etc. remained, and I was able to walk around them. It is said that the building that was a clan school is the only existing building in the Tohoku region.