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In creating the last blog (Izuishi, which built the castle and town of Edo-I visited the hometown of Izuishi-), a spokesperson about the history and culture of the school with the stone stone of Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen. I was able to hear valuable stories through the person. It was the tradition of the school, which has survived various hardships and educated over a century, on the soil of Nihonbashi, which has been the center of history and culture since the Edo period (just above the ruins of the Edo period).

Therefore, this blog introduces Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen, which has a school building on archeological sites from the Edo period, based on valuable stories that could not be introduced last time, and the `` Yanagihara embankment site I would like to dig a little deeper about the archeological site.

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Introduction
１．About Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
　（１） History and Culture of the School
　（２） The International Strength of the School
２．About the ruins of Yanagihara embankment
　（１） What is the site of Yanagihara embankment?
　（２） Excavation experience of students
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　Then, from the last blog, Yukiko Fujii, Deputy Principal, who had a valuable talk about Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen Junior and Senior High School, I would like you to introduce the history, culture, and internationality of the school again. I think.

(left) Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen's school building (8 floors above ground and 1 floor below ground). In the foreground is the Hisamatsu Police Station, Higashinihombashi police box.

Right) Explanation board of "Gundai Yashiki Ruins" right next to the police box. During the Edo period, there was a residence of an official called Kanto-gundai, who managed the collection of annual tribute, flood control, and the handling of territorial disputes.

（１） Please tell us about the history and culture of the school.

<History of Establishment>

　Our school was established in 1904 as Nihonbashi Women's School by Nihonbashi Ward Education Association, which was one of the "educational associations" formed in various places during the Meiji era, and Nihonbashi Ward at that time. It opened in Nihonbashikakigaracho in 1905.

　The spirit of founding is "moderate quality" and was established as a school responsible for girls' education for long-established Nihonbashi people.

　In 1906, it was approved by a private Nihonbashi High School, relocated to this area (2-chome Nihonbashi Bakurocho) in 1908, and in 1915 it became Nihonbashi Jogakukan. After the war, Nihonbashi Jogakukan Junior and Senior High School was the only private women's school in Chuo-ku for a long time, and there are many graduates nearby.

　However, our school will also be affected by the declining birthrate, and in 2014, we partnered with Kaichi Gakuen, a school corporation based in Saitama Prefecture (Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama City), and in 2015, Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen Junior High School, and in 2018, co-education began as Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen High School, and has continued to this day.

<The long-established people in Nihonbashi have supported the school>

　Nihonbashi Jogakukan is a school established for girls' education for long-established people in Nihonbashi, but the board members, which are the school's management base, have been supported by the long-established people.

　The Chuo-ku government office displays photographs of "Honorary Ward Residents of Chuo-ku", of which the late Keizo Yamamoto (Yamamoto-noriten Co., Ltd.), the late Masanori Miyairi (Miyairi Co., Ltd.), and the late Yasubee Hosoda (Eitaro Sohonho Co., Ltd.) served as the president of our school, and the late Meiji Masayoshi Mita (Mr. By the way, the late Keizo Yamamoto is the father of the current mayor of the central ward, Yasuto Yamamoto, and Yasuto is currently a director.

　Until the merger of Nihonbashi Ward and Kyobashi Ward and the birth of Chuo-ku, there were times when the mayor of Nihonbashi Ward was also the president of our school.

<About the spirit of Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen>

　I have been working as a manager for 9 years at Nihonbashi Jogakukan, 6 years at Kaichi Junior and Senior High School, and 3 years and 3 months at Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen. At Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen, Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen is based on the spirit of inheriting the old culture derived from Nihonbashi Jogakukan, I want to create a new culture by incorporating new things and different cultures.

<Recent Student Trends>

　Nihonbashi Jogakukan, which used to accept only children near Nihonbashi, survived the crisis of closing schools in the Great Kanto Earthquake and reopened in 1924, it became a school that opened doors nationwide.

　Now that it has become a co-school Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen, it is a school that opens doors to the world, but recently as the population of Chuo-ku increases, the number of applicants and enrollees from within the ward increases year by year, finally the number of junior high school students who passed the entrance examination in 2024 was the highest among residents of Chuo-ku. With the increase in the young population of Chuo-ku, the number of families who work on the world stage may be increasing in the city. It seems that they are returning to their original form, and this is also a pleasure.

[History]

・Meiji 37 (1904) approved the establishment of Nihonbashi Girls' School.
・Meiji 38 (1905) A part of Nihonbashikakigaracho Daiichi Kindergarten School Building was rented and opened.
・Meiji 39 (1906) Private Nihonbashi High School approved
・Meiji 41 (1908) Relocated to former Chiyoda Elementary School school building on Yanagihara Riverside No. 3 due to an increase in students.
・Meiji 44 (1911) Majesty the Emperor and Empress
・1915 (1915) Establishment of Nihonbashi Jogakukan
・The school returned to Karasuari due to the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, and the school was temporarily dissolved.
・1924 Reopening classes in 1924
・1931 (1931) Changes to the Articles of Incorporation of Nihonbashi Jogakukan, and the mayor of Nihonbashi will serve as the president of our school.
・In 1947, Nihonbashi Ward and Kyobashi Ward merged to form Chuo-ku. Since then, our school and the ward assembly have been effectively separated.
・Established Nihonbashi Jogakukan in 1951.
・In 1965, the arrival of Princess Chichibu.
・(1989) Appointed Chairman of Keizo Yamamoto
・The 100th anniversary ceremony was held at Meijiza in 2005.
・In 2006, Mr. Masanori Miyairi became Chairman of the Board
・Appointed Chairman of Yasubee Hosoda in 2007
・In 2007, middle and high school students started classes at temporary school buildings to construct new school buildings.
・Completion of a new school building on the first basement floor and eight floors above ground in 2009 (2009) and commemorative ceremony
・In 2014, Kaichi-Nihonbashi Education Group was formed in partnership with Kaichi Gakuen, a school corporation.
・In 2015, Nihonbashi Jogakukan Junior High School was renamed Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen Junior High School.
・Merged with Kaichi Gakuen, a school corporation in 2017 (the surviving corporation is Kaichi Gakuen).
・In 2018, Nihonbashi Jogakukan High School was renamed Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen High School.

Photographed by Kyobashi Library "From Asakusabashi to Nihonbashi Jogakukan" produced in 1958 (provided by Kyobashi Library)

Photographed by Kyobashi Library "Viewing Nihonbashi Jogakukan from Asakusabashi" Produced in 1997 (provided by Kyobashi Library)

（２） Could you tell us about the international nature that the school aims for?

　The name Kaichi Gakuen was named by Satoshi Omura, an honorary school director and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and "inquiry" has been the pillar of education to foster global human resources who can play an active role in the world. Was.

　"International Baccalaureate" (hereinafter "IB") (*) incorporates that inquiry as an educational method, and is the only private school in the 23 wards of Tokyo that has been conducting IB education for middle and high school for six years (Middle Years Program, Diploma Program Certified School).

　30% of school faculty and staff members are native English, bilingual or trilingual, where English flutters in classrooms and staff rooms. In addition, although the final figures for FY2023 have not yet been published, out of the 140 graduates in FY2022, we have passed 42 overseas universities.

　In this way, we are aware of the history, culture and economic characteristics of Nihonbashi, and emphasize that it is a useful school in Nihonbashi, and strive to develop human resources who can play an active role in the globalizing international community.

（※） "International Baccalaureate" is an international educational program provided by the International Baccalaureate Organization. For more information, please visit the website of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

[Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen Junior and Senior High School]

 〒103-0002 2-7-6, Nihonbashibakurocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

 TEL： 03-3662-2507 FAX： 03-3662-2506
 Homepage: https://www.kng.ed.jp/

Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen is located along Yanagihara-dori on the southern shore of the Kanda River (from the Chuo-ku area map at 1-4, Nihonbashi Bakurocho).

2-14 Nihonbashi Kakigaracho, the place where the school opened. It is very close to Suitengu (from the Chuo-ku area map (upper is east) at 2-4 Kakigaracho, Nihonbashi).

（１） What is the site of Yanagihara embankment?

　The Yanagihara embankment site was discovered by Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen during an emergency excavation survey conducted when the school building was rebuilt in 2008 during the Nihonbashi Jogakukan era. Originally, the adjacent land of the school was designated as a buried cultural property storage area (No.25,29 archeological site in Chuo-ku), so first of all, from December 2007 (2007) to January 2008 (2008) Prior exploration survey was conducted in advance, and then officially registered in March 2008 and in May of the same year, the site was officially registered as the main store.

　The Yanagihara embankment was built in 1620 after the excavation of the Kanda River, which also functions as the outer moat of Edo Castle, in 1616. Later, Asakusa Hashikado was built by the Matsudaira Echizen family in Kanei 13 (1636) by the Edo Castle outer moat. The situation is also depicted in the "Edo Hokaku Yasumi Encyclopedia" (listed later) of Yanbao 7 (1679), and a castle wall (stone wall) extending west along the Kanda River from Masugata in Asakusa Hashikado, and "Yanagihara embankment" You can see that there is a bank written.

　In this way, the site was adjacent to Asakusa Mitsuke, one of the thirty-six Edo Castle Mitsuke (a military facility in Edo shogunate with Asakusa Hashikado), so it could be said that it was an important place for the defense of Edo Castle.

　This excavation revealed that the area was likely to have been a bank with stone walls and a Machiya (house of merchants and craftsmen built in the town) that was attached to it almost throughout the Edo period. . In the Meiji era, Chiyoda Elementary School was built by Meiji 17 (1884), Nihonbashi High School was relocated in Meiji 41 (1908), and after passing through Nihonbashi Jogakukan Junior and Senior High School, now Kaichi Nihonbashi It is the site of Gakuen. Excavations have made many artifact backfills, so the remains of the Yanagihara embankment are still sleeping under the school.

The red circle on the left is the site of the ruins of Yanagihara embankment. The wall (stone wall) extends from Masugata in Asakusa Hashikado to the right (west) along the Kanda River along the Kanda River, and you can see something like a tower. Furthermore, on the right (west), a bank is built following the wall (stone wall), and you can see that "Yanagihara embankment" is written on the red circle.

In addition, there is a mansion written as "Ina Han Juro" above the site of the Yanagihara embankment site (southwest), which will be the residence of "Kanto-gundai" (Gundai residence) later inherited by the Ina family.

This map was reprinted from "Chuo-ku History Book [Nihonbashi Hen]" (Kyobashi Library, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, issued on March 31, 1995) with the permission of the Kyobashi Library. It was created from "Edo Hokaku Yasumi Encyclopedia". The map at that time (Edo map) is generally drawn with the direction of Edo Castle up, and this map is southwest on the top.

　In front of Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen's school building, stone wall stones excavated from archeological sites were displayed, and the explanation board provided the following explanation.

＞The place where this stone was excavated is about 5,60 meters west from here. It was a bank called Yanagihara embankment along the Kanda River throughout the Edo period. The Kanda River also serves as a moat for the defense of Edo Castle, and on the south side of Asakusabashi, there is a castle gate called Asakusabashi Gomon, which is the northeastest of Edo Castle, and this area is an important location within Edo Castle.
　This stone was discovered about 1m below the ground during an excavation survey conducted from December 2007 to May 2008. It is an andesite stone carried from around Izu Peninsula. These stones were found around six steps, piled up at a height of 3 to 4 meters. This is a stone wall that solidifies the defense of Edo Castle. It may have been meaningful to reinforce the south side of the bank. It was built for a long time in the east and west along the shape of the bank.
　This is a new discovery material that proved that a stone wall was built here for the first time during this excavation survey, and it is a valuable excavated artifact that shows that this area was a corner of Edo Castle.

The stone wall on display in front of the school building.

Below) The left side (south side) is Yanagihara Street, and the right side (north side) is the school building. The stone wall is also shown.

（２） Excavation experience of students

　On May 24, 2008 (2008), excavation training was conducted at the construction site of the new school building by 3 (5 students) and 20 students in junior high school. . The students who participated in the training cheered for the excavation of daily necessities and domenko from the Edo period, and were excited about the first valuable excavation experience, but was immersed in the work hard. For students studying in Nihonbashi, which has been the center of history and culture since the Edo period, it can be said that this is the moment when they touch the origin of their school.

"News from Jogakukan" (issued on July 24, 2008), which introduced the practical training of the excavation survey. The word "News from Jogakukan" is written by the late President Keizo Yamamoto (father of Mayor Yasuto Yamamoto, Chuo-ku) (provided by Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen).

　This time, Deputy Principal Yukiko Fujii contacted the graduates who had the excavation experience and was able to hear about the situation at that time. The graduate was Maho Takeuchi (Hayasaka), a second-year junior high school student at the time, and talked about the following.

＞It is an excavation, but I still remember it clearly.
　Originally, I liked social studies, so I enjoyed participating very much. Due to the fact that Nihonbashi and Bakurocho, daily necessities such as tea bowl fragments used by people from the Edo period came out, and I felt the weight of the history of this area again. I strongly realized that generations of people have lived in Nihonbashi and inherited their culture, and I felt the joy of having a school building in such a historical place.
　I liked history since I was in elementary school, but my experience in the excavation was certainly a catalyst for going to the Department of History. After all, the excavation revealed that we are on what many generations have built.
　After that, I majored in folklore at Seijo University's Department of Culture and History, Faculty of Literary Arts, and my main research theme focused on people's lives. That may have been the experience of the excavation. I was very surprised when I told my university history teachers that I had participated in excavations when I was a junior high school student.
　I would like to thank you for your valuable experience.

Students who practice excavations silently (provided by Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen).

In creating this blog, Deputy Principal Yukiko Fujii was very helpful and asked about various stories about the school. I felt strongly about Nihonbashi Jogakukan, like Vice President Yasuto Yamamoto (at the time of the 110th anniversary) who was interviewed in the "110th anniversary magazine of Nihonbashi Jogakukan" which I introduced. I think that it is also a figure that values Nihonbashi, which has been the center of history and culture since the Edo period. At the end of the interview, I think that his thoughts and appearance were exactly condensed in the powerful words, "I would like to further develop the Nihonbashi brand on the soil of Nihonbashi that lasted for more than 400 years and strive to develop human resources who can flourish in the future."

In addition, Mr. Fujii also contacted graduate Takeuchi (Hayasaka), and heard a wonderful story that the practical training of excavations in junior high school had a major impact on life. Was.

I went on a trip to Izu during GW and wrote a blog on the theme of Izuishi, and taught me at the Kyobashi Library about the ruins of Yanagihara embankment that I did not know before. And I was able to write this blog by actually visiting the archeological site and meeting Ishigaki stone from Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen. Thank you very much for this connection and connection. Thank you very much.

The pillar of Kaichi Nihonbashi Gakuen's education is "inquiry", but since my last blog (exploring archeological sites is originally a favorite field), I moved around with more "inquiry spirit" than usual. May have brought good encounters.

[Main Reference Materials]

①“Special Contribution: Establishment of Nihonbashi Jogakukan” Hisaki Goto, Professor, Kaichi International University

②"Interview with Vice President Yasuto Yamamoto" recorded on June 19, 2015, Interview and Structure: Hisaki Goto, Professor, International University of Japan. Reception room at Yamamoto-noriten Co., Ltd.

③Chuo-ku Board of Education Edited "Yanagihara embankment site in Chuo-ku, Tokyo" Nihonbashi Jogakukan, Chuo-ku Board of Education, 2013

※The source of the above 12 is "Nihonbashi Jogakukan 110th Anniversary Magazine" Sakura Yukai (Nihonbashi Jogakukan Alumni Association), published on March 10, 2016.