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Educational Letters —— Understanding of Educational Letters
This imperial edict on education can be understood from four parts:

The first part of the outline uses territory to explain that the essence of Japan's national system is loyalty and filial piety, and the foundation of national morality is the foundation of education, that is, education takes cultivating loyal ministers and dutiful sons as the starting point;

The second part lists ten virtues, namely, filial piety, friendship, harmony, honesty, frugality, love, learning, morality, public welfare and respect for the constitution and law, which constitute the main content of the so-called moral education;

The third part describes that the result of moral education still belongs to cultivating loyal ministers, brave warriors and loyal kings to support the emperor, which actually implies the intention of being a tool of blind obedience and embodies the need of militaristic expansion;

The fourth part is the second paragraph, which explains that the emperor himself and the Lebanese people should abide by it as a whole. The emperor's obedience means that the government does not change the purpose of education, and the people's obedience is to be pursued. But the emperor and his subjects are obedient, which shows that this document has the nature of an educational contract, which is different from the situation that the emperor gave orders to the outside world under the absolute monarchy system in China.