Abstract
This paper analyzes the role of hymns by observing the relation of early modern Japanese Christianity and Meiji music education. For this purpose, this paper studied the melodies of 16 of 91 hymns of the first Japanese modern music education textbook, Sh?gakuSh?kash?. This study focuses on lyrics that strongly represented national ideology. This study concludes that Japanese Christianity, to survive the sanctification policy of the Emperor, chose to relate with education. Consequently, Sh?gaku Sh?kash? was created, in which most of the hymns were from other countries, and 10 of 16 melodies expressed active praise for the Emperor’s rule. Thus, Japan’s early modern Christianity adopted the Meiji government’s policy of using the Christian hymn melody, and actively played the role of making “Meijians” within the ideology of the Emperor system.
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