This article will introduce three newly discovered student registers from Yamamoto Dokushoshitsu School. Although in total these registers cover 70 years, from 1807 to 1876, this analysis is based on the Monjin meibo of 926 students over three generations of principals, Fūzan, Bōyō and Yōshitsu, covering the years 1807-1864. The number of new entrants peaks in the years 1839-1855, with an average of 26 students per year. The distribution of students' birthplaces covers all 51 provinces, but generally the Kinki region from the west of the Hokuriku and Tōkai districts is the most prevalent. In terms of social class, Buddhist priests, bōkan, and shodaibu make up the largest single group (19%). Subsequently, in decreasing order of frequency, doctors range from machi'i, son'i, han'i, to ten'i. This composition reflects the character of a Confucian physician's private school in the ancient city of Kyoto. In addition to reproductions of these three lists of 1557 student names (1600 if Endo's supplement is included), biographical notes have been added where known.

The Yamamoto Dokushoshitsu, a private school of natural history and Chinese classics in Kyoto, continued its activities over a 120-year period 1784 to 1903. Yamamoto Bōyō (1778– 1859), a disciple of the naturalist Ono Ranzan, inherited the school from his father Yamamoto Hōzan (1742–1813). The school reached its peak during the Ansei period (1854–1859).Yamamoto Ayao (1827–1903), the third son of Bōyō, reopened the school in 1875 as a means to maintain the Confucian and educational traditions of the Yamamoto family until his death in 1903. In 1893 he wrote the Senjin Genkōroku as a life of his late father following Confucian ideas of filial duty, but ten years later, in 1903, he rewrote it as a memoir containing, not only anecdotes about his grandfather Hōzan and his father Bōyō, but also histories of students, brothers and relatives and his own autobiography. Here we present for the first time the 1903 manuscript of Senjin Genkōroku with an introduction and notes. The introduction analyzes the process of its transformation using the family’s biographical documents.