In 1651, he drafted the rules of 'Hanazono-kai' (a circle for the education of the ordinary people), and this circle was the predecessor of 'Shizutani School,' which was founded in 1670 - when Banzan already left the Okayama Domain - as the first school in Japan that was open to ordinary people. 慶安4年(1651年)庶民教育の場となる「花園会」の会約を起草し、これが蕃山の致仕後の寛文10年(1670年)日本初の庶民学校として開かれた「閑谷学校」の前身となった。 |