Seisyokai (Alumni of the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies/Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies)

The Seisyokai is an alumni association for the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies and the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. It was founded as the Kyoto University Faculty of Integrated Human Studies and Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies Alumni Association in December 2005 and has since worked to facilitate friendship and exchange among graduates, students, and current and former faculty and staff. In 2018, the name changed to the Kyoto University Seishokai.
The name Seisyokai was suggested by Professor Hiroshi Sano who works at the faculty and graduate school. It comes from the line “See the cherry blossom haze against the setting sun / The boys under the cherry blossoms / Now on carefree journey with the white moon / Silently (sei) illuminating (sho) Mt. Yoshida” at the end of “Shoyo no uta” (lyrics: Sentaro Sawamura [Koi Sawamura]), which is the dormitory song of the Third Higher School. It was thus named the Seishokai with the wish for it to become a place for alumni to gather, always illuminated by the light of wisdom regardless of the violent vicissitudes of the times as well as a place where people can share their aspirations no matter their age. For more details about where the name comes from, please vist our website.

[Year of founding]
2005

[Chairperson]
Tsukasa Mihira (currently Associate professor at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies)

[Number of members]
9,693

[Main events]
General meeting, social gathering once a year, etc.