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‖ terakoya Japanese Hist.|teraˈkoːja|
[Jap., = temple school, f. tera temple + ko child(ren) + ya place.]
In the Japanese feudal period, a private elementary school of a kind established orig. in the Buddhist temples.
1909D. Kikuchi Japanese Education ii. 33 The name Terakoya, or ‘House for the Children of the Temple’, given to elementary schools up to the beginning of the present era. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 220/1 They [sc. Buddhist priests] organized schools at the temples.., and at these tera-koya..lessons in ethics, calligraphy, reading and etiquette were given to the sons of samurai and even to youths of the mercantile and manufacturing classes. 1938D. T. Suzuki Zen Buddhism & its Influence on Japanese Culture i. v. 106 The Terakoya system was the only popular educational institution during the feudal ages of Japan. 1965W. Swaan Jap. Lantern xii. 143 The terakoya, or ‘temple schools’ attached to the monasteries, provide the only institution of popular education. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 342/2 As time passed, some terakoya used parts of the houses of commoners as classrooms. |