Kōnan High School

is an upper secondary school in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a co-educational public school. Overview Before the school system was reformed after World War II, this school used to be known as and . The two schools became Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1949. The official founding year is 1906 when Daini-Kagoshima Middle School was founded. However, Daini-Kagoshima Middle School is regarded as one of the successors of in Meiji era, which originated from the han school called in Edo period. The school's main building with the dome was built in 1930 (early Showa era) as the Daini-Kagoshima Middle School's building. The school is located on the south side of the . In addition, there are birthplaces of Ōkubo Toshimichi, also called , and Saigō Takamori, also called , near the school. The school was named for these reasons. The ivy and the camphor tree in the schoolyard are the school symbols. The school emblem features deer antlers and a flower of dianthus. Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru High School is the rival school.