In the academic field, he issued "Kansei Igaku no Kin" (Prohibition of heterodoxies in the Kansei era) and authorized "Shushigaku" (Neo-Confucianism) as the official study, nationalized "Shoheizaka Gakumonsho" (or called 'Shoheiko,' which had been the private school of the Hayashi family), and took other measures to encourage literary and military arts. |
また学問分野では寛政異学の禁で朱子学を公式の学問とし、林家の私塾であった昌平坂学問所(昌平黌)を官立とするなど文武の奨励を行った。 |