Kinmochi SAIONJI mentioned, 'We invited Neo-Confucian scholars and Confucians of Mitogaku (the scholarship and academic traditions that arose in the Mito Domain) as teachers, and some of them were famous as good writers.
西園寺公望は、「教師には朱子学者、水戸学の儒者をむかえ、文章家として聞こえた人もあった。