New PDF release: Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The

By Margaret Mehl

ISBN-10: 8791114039

ISBN-13: 9788791114038

The institution of a countrywide schooling method quickly after the Meiji recovery of 1868 is famous as a major factor in Japan's modernization, accordingly examine on schooling is targeted at the country procedure. in spite of the fact that, this improvement didn't suggest the disappearance of the juku, the personal academies that have been a lot a characteristic of the Tokugawa interval. certainly, those performed a much higher position than has been favored thus far and this booklet goals to rectify the omission. This complete research of a little-known yet major sector not just contributes to a greater realizing of schooling within the Meiji interval yet can also be suitable to the reform of Japan's public schooling approach this day. schooling used to be considered and organised very otherwise from this day, and the trendy state-controlled method we take with no consideration is simply as a lot a manufactured from old situations because the juku used to be; it, too, needs to consequently be open to problem.

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G. Warren Smith, Confucianism in Modern Japan: aStudy of Conservatism in Japanese Intellectual History (Hokuseidō Press, 1959, 1973). Jansen, “Japanese Views of China during the Meiji Period”, Approaches to Modern Chinese History, ed. Wright (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 163–169, “Meiji Sinologues and China”, Marius B. : Harvard University Press, 1992). Fogel, Joshua A. E. Sharpe, 1995). The following is based on Margaret Mehl, “Chinese Learning (kangaku) in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)”, History (85) 2000:48–66.

Even so, in 1894, on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, Shiga Shigetaka published his Nihonfūkeiron (Japanese Scenery) with the purpose to arouse national pride in Japan’s environment. 58 Although language reform—until then discussed mainly from pragmatic considerations—became a nationalist issue after 1895,59 the main argument against kanbun may well have been that it had become a dead language (shigo). The education minister, Inoue Kowashi, referred to it as such when he ordered the abandonment of the Dainihonhennenshi in 1893.

Organized Buddhism, which had had a monopoly on education before the Tokugawa period, also set up schools. 49 24 PRIVATE ACADEMIES OF CHINESE LEARNING IN MEIJI JAPAN Following the example of the Christian missionaries, some Buddhist schools for girls were established. In Hakodate, where many missionaries were active, members of several Buddhist sects cooperated to found the Rikuwa jogakkō, later Hakodate Ōtani gakuen, in 1888. In 1891 Yamamoto Kō, a graduate from the Ferris Seminary, became the first full-time head mistress.

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