In 1886 a new school, Seisei-Gakkan, was founded in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture by Katsutaro Kamada and others. The aim of the school was to provide middle-school level education to the children from primary schools, who had been deprived of the chance to study at that level of education due to the Promulgation of Middle School Order in 1886.
The school is said to have given a general education with an emphasis on using English-language materials, although the curriculum is no longer accessible, nor is the list of the textbooks used in the school. We can, however, guess which textbooks were used through the Regulations of Hanyo English Club, which had been established a few months before Seisei-Gakkan. It is probable that Seisei-Gakkan staff made reference to the regulations of the club when they designed the school's curriculum, since one of the founders of the club joined the teaching staff of Seisei-Gakkan.
The school closed in 1893. During the seven-year operation they invited from the metropolitan area six headmasters, among whom we can identify the name of Sentaro Nishida, who later moved to Matsue Middle School in Shimane and became a reliable colleague of Lafcadio Hearn. In Nishida's diaries we can find how warmly he was welcomed to the school.
Seisei-Gakkan thus successfully played the role of a substitute public middle school until the establishment of the two prefectural middle schools in Takamatsu and Marugame in 1893.
