The ''Kōbusho'' 講武所 (a.k.a. ''Rikugunsho'') was a Japanese

military academy A military academy or service academy is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps. It normally provides education in a military environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned. ...

. It was set up in the final decades of the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

in response to Japan's experience of Western military power, and taught Western battlefield tactics such as artillery use alongside traditional

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. The academy was located in Misakichō, Tokyo. It closed in 1866, after only ten years in operation.

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