Kōbusho

'military training center') was a Japanese military academy.

It was set up in the final decades of the Edo period as part of Japan's defensive preparations in response to Western military coercion, and taught Western-style battlefield tactics such as artillery use alongside traditional Japanese martial arts.

[1][2] The academy was located in Misakichō, Tokyo.

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