Known as Japan’s oldest university, Ashikaga School is presently a national historic site. Ashikaga Gakko is in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, approximately 70 kilometres north of Japan’s capital city, Tokyo, the school brings to mind the majestic appearance of the Japan of days past. Furthermore, in 1990, several huge wooden buildings of the old Ashikaga School were restored.Some historians say that Ashikaga School was founded by Onono Takamura, a great scholar and courtier in the beginning of the Heian period ( 794 – 1185 ) The principal was a Zen priest from generation to generation. Confucianism, the science of divination, Chinese medicine and so forth were taught there. Seibyo ( temple of Confucius ) Nyuutokumon ( gate ), the school gate and Kyodanmon ( gate ) are the only traces of the now defunct school, where stands a library housing a number of ancient documents ( national treasures )
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