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Ashikaga Gakko

Classicist ceiling in the historic library building adjacent to Ashikaga Gakko.

Ashikaga Gakko (wZ): known as Japan's oldest university, Ashikaga School was established during the 1400s by deputy shogun Uesugi Norizane. By the 1500s, St. Francis Xavier and other foreign missionaries ridentified it as the most famous university in eastern Japan. The school was abolished after the Meiji Restoration and then converted into an elementary school when the site passed into city control in 1902. After a decade of preparatory work, the original grounds of Ashikaga School were beautifully restored in 1990 as a National Historic Site, a designation it received in 1921.
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