奉ほう安あん殿でん

noun

school building for housing an imperial photograph and the Imperial Rescript on Education (pre-WWII)

Historical term referring to a small, often shrine-like structure found in Japanese schools before World War II, used to store the emperor's portrait and a copy of the Imperial Rescript on Education.

• 戦せん前ぜんの学がっ校こうには、奉ほう安あん殿でんが設もうけられていた。

  Before the war, schools had a Hōanden.

• 奉ほう安あん殿でんには、天皇てんのうの写しゃ真しんと教きょう育いく勅ちょく語ごが納おさめられていた。

  The Hōanden housed the emperor's photograph and the Imperial Rescript on Education.