Review Paper
Year: 2022 | Month: March | Volume: 9 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 417-423
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20220346
The Imperial Portraits Ho-an-den of Former Hsin-hua Ordinary Elementary School- Focusing on the Exploration of Imperial Rescript on Education
Wen-Bin Lin1, Kao-Feng Yarn2
1Department of Electronic and Optoelectronic Application Engineering, 2Department of Aircraft Maintenance, Far East University, Taiwan 744, ROC
Corresponding Author: Wen-Bin Lin
ABSTRACT
Hsin-hua Primary School, Hsin-hua District, Tainan City, Taiwan, was celebrating its 120th anniversary in 2017. The school was formerly known as the Tavocan branch of Tainan Institute of Japanese, founded in 1898 during the Japanese colonial rule. As part of its commemorative project, it has restored the Ho-an-den, a post-war Japanese period building with slogans on all four walls of the campus.
Ho-an-den, commonly known as "imperial portraits Ho-an-den", was a building used to enshrine the portraits of contemporary emperors and empresses in schools and other educational institutions in Japan and its colonies, such as Taiwan and Korea, before the World War II.
Although it is called "Imperial Portraits Ho-an-den", in general, except for "Imperial Portraits", A transcript of the imperial descript on education, the highest philosophy of education in pre-war Japan, will also be included. This Ho-an-den is one of the only two remaining in Taiwan. It is an important testimony of the Japanese rulers' emphasis on "emperor system" education.
Keywords: Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, the imperial descript on education, imperial portraits, Ho-an-den.
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