抄録
In the Edo era, HAN-KOU (a kind of school) was founded by HAN as an educational institution to educate BUSHI, and it was spread all over the country during the last part of the Edo era. RIKKYOU-KAN was founded by a master of HAN, Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA, and in there BUSHI was educated comprehensively in literary and martial arts. In this study, special attention has been paid to Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA's martial arts education in RIKKYOU-KAN.
The results can be summarized as follows:
1. Before RIKKYOU-KAN was founded by Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA, the founder of HAN, Sadatsuna MATSUDAIRA, had founded the school for literary and martial arts.
2. In RIKKYOU-KAN, martial arts education was considered very seriously, and Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA adopted martial arts by Sadatsuna MATSUDAIRA as well as his own martial arts. Furthermore, newly developed martial arts were also adoped in order to enrich martial arts education.
3. In RIKKYOU-KAN, the way to complain of BUSHI's honorable mind or economic situation was adopted as a policy to encourage martial arts, and they succeeded in finding capable low-class BUSHI beyond classes. This had great effects on low-class BUSHI, and gave them chances to play an active part after the Kansei period
