Academic institute - Gakkanin

…An educational facility for the children of the Tachibana clan in the Heian period. It is also written as Gakukan-in or Gakuin. It was built by Empress Danrin Tachibana Kachiko and her brother, the Minister of the Right Tachibana Ujikimi, and is thought to have been established towards the end of the Jowa era (834-848) as a boarding school for university students of the clan. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Gakukanin" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…平安時代の橘氏の子弟のための教育施設。学官院，学宦院とも記す。檀林皇后橘嘉智子が弟の右大臣橘氏公（うじきみ）とはかって建てたもので，一族の大学生の寄宿勉学のために，承和年間(834‐848)の末年ごろ設立したと思われる。…

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