■History
The Red Brick Museum began to be used as a food store warehouse for the49th Infantry Regiment (commonly known as the Kofu Infantry Regiment)in April 1909.

Red Brick Museum（Registered Tangible Cultural Property ）After the Second World War, in December of 1949, the 49th Infantry
Regiment site came to be used for elementary and junior high schools
affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the University of
Yamanashi, and while the other buildings were demolished, this building
continued to be used as a part of the Junior High School building.
In 1998, heavy snowfall damaged a part of the building. Following this, amovement to preserve the building gained momentum, and after seismic
refitting, in 2002 the present Red Brick Museum was completed,preserving its former image.

■Features
The Red Brick Museum is a red brick building built around 1908, with anarea of around 330.6 m², a width of around 9.1 meters and a depth of 36.4
meters.
The bricks of the outer wall are locally produced Koshu red bricks, and arestacked in a Dutch stacking style, which was rare at that time.
With arched doorways and windows, a wooden frame truss structure, and aJapanese tiled roof, it is one of the largest existing Western-style brickbuildings from the Meiji era in Yamanashi .

Inquiries about the Red Brick Museum
General Affairs Department, General Affairs Division
Ｔ Ｅ Ｌ： ０５５－２２０－８００４
Ｆ Ａ Ｘ： ０５５－２２０－８７９９
Ｅ-mail： soumuk@yamanashi.ac.jp

Registration Date of Tangible Cultural Property：
October 18, 2006

Many materials related to the Faculty of Education of the Universityof Yamanashi are exhibited in the Red Brick Museum.
Diagrams and photographs of the facilities, instruments and toolsthat were previously used, and documents and books that tell thestory of the evolution from the late 18th century as the Kofu
Gakumonsho (the Place of Study) to the present day are displayed inthe exhibition room.

■Community HallThe Community Hall is a building of about 8×20 meters,
used to hold various exhibitions and events related to theUniversity of Yamanashi.

③■The Framed School Song for Junior HighSchool attached to the University of Yamanashi“Our way is right here”- written by Zenmaro
Toki (1952)
Zenmaro Toki (a poet and a Japanese literature scholar Meiji 18 (1885) Showa 55 (1980)) started composing Tanka (a traditional Japanese poem
containing five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables, respectively)when he wasin junior high school, and his talent as a poet first garnered attention in1910 when he published “Nakiwarai” (“Smiling Through the Tears”), a
collection of poems written entirely in roman letters, in three-line stanzas.

Community Hall③④⑤

PostwarReconstruction
to High GrowthIntroductionof the Red Brick Museum

Modern Times②■The Historical Desk that has
been used since the Normal
School’s era
There is a brand of the Normal
School on the right side of the desk.
While many desks were discarded,
this desk, which was used until the1960s, miraculously remained.

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Introduction of theUniversity of
Yamanashi’s History①Administrative Documents of the Meiji era■The Cash Book for the men’s cooking department of
Yamanashi Prefectural Normal School (1990)②

He was praised along with the famous poet Takuboku Ishikawa.
He was acquainted with socialists such as Sakae Sugi and Kanson Arahataand also had a deep connection with the socialism socialist literature andthe proletarian literature.

World War IIand Upheaval

Liu Wen-cheng was a politician (1311-1375), a poet, andan assistant for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and he
was also the first master of the Ming Dynasty.

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CreationRecords ofKitenkan①Historical Materials from the Edo period to the early
Meiji period■“Kouyubaisyahoujyou” written by Otsukotsutaiken.
“Kouyubaisyahoujyou” includes "Bai Kan Shin Ja”,
originally found in the anthology “Cheng Yi Bo Liu Wen
Cheng Gong Ji Volume 7.” written by Liu Wen-cheng .

⑤Report Cards of each era■The Report Cards from the Meiji
era through Showa era

During the war, he published songs of the resistance to the current
situation as a liberal poet, and after the war, he did a wide range of culturalactivities and wrote school songs for many high schools, junior high schools,
and elementary schools, including the high school attached to Tokyo
Gakugei University and the junior high school and high school attached tothe Faculty of Education of Nagoya University.

④Historical Materials in the war time
■The Historical Teaching Practice
Diaries in the war time（1944）
In1944, when the B-29 raids on Tokyo began,although teaching practice was supposed to last for 12 weeks according toregulations of the Ministry of Education, the classes offered by themobilization of labor services were rarely held, and that year's teachingpractice lasted only 10 days.
When the principal of the normal school gave an admonitory speech, hestated that he hoped that all of the students would carry on the spirit of theKamikaze fighters who attacked the great enemy, and do all they could tostrengthen the military power of Japan, focusing on the war efforts.
An intern recorded in his teaching practice diary that he felt anger uponseeing a formation of nine American fighter planes overhead after thedismissal time for students, but on the other hand, with dispassionate
observation, he acknowledged the excellent skills and the spirit ofpersistence of the U.S. forces.