私費しひ (shihi)

彼かれは私費しひで留学りゅうがくしたんだ。

He went to study abroad at his own expense.

私費しひで旅行りょこうした。

I traveled at my own expense.

貢進生制度廃止後、私費で開成学校に入学。

After the abolition of Koshinsei system, he entered Kaisei Gakko at his private expense.

私費留学中は、ドイツ官学派の手厚い写実を身につけた。

During the privately funded study abroad, he learned the firmly realistic method of the German government-school faction.

第三期生までは生徒全員が官費生であったが、第四期生から一部私費生となった。

Up to the third generation students, all the students were financed by the National Government, however, some of the fourth generation students were privately financed.

晩年は私費を投じて北鳴学校（後の北海道札幌南高等学校）を開き、札幌農学校の新渡戸稲造を迎えて高等教育を行うなど教育分野にも実績を残した。

In his later years, HORI also left achievements in education field by establishing Hokumei Gakko (it later became Hokkaido Sapporo Minami High School) with his private expense and provided higher education with Inazo NITOBE, who was invited from Sapporo Agricultural College.

大輪田泊の重要性を深くみとめた清盛は、上述したように、従来、南東風による風浪が港湾施設を破壊することが多かったため、湊の前面に人工島を築いて安全な碇泊地を設けようと、私費を投じて修築工事に着手した。

Considering the importance of Owada no tomari, Kiyomori built an artificial island in front of the port because, as mentioned before, traditionally the southeast wind and wave often destroyed the port facilities, and to build a safe dock, he began the reconstruction work by spending his own money.

当時、長崎は日本で唯一の海外と通じた都市であったため、そこで育った秋帆は、日本砲術と西洋砲術の格差を知って愕然とし、自らオランダ語や洋式砲術を学んで、私費で銃器等を揃え1834年（天保5年）に高島流砲術を完成させた。

At the time, since Nagasaki was the only city in Japan open to overseas, Shuhan, who grew up there, was astonished to find such a large gap between Japanese gunnery and Western gunnery, so he studied Dutch and foreign gunnery on his own, gathered firearms and so on with his private money, and in 1834, completed the Takashima ryu hojutsu.