Early Meiji Period Research Articles

明治前期下級審判決における女性「雇人」に関する若干の分析

明治前期下級審判決における女性「雇人」に関する若干の分析

殖産興業政策と移植産業・在来産業 ( 日本資本主義成立過程における移植産業と在来産業)

殖産興業政策と移植産業・在来産業 ( 日本資本主義成立過程における移植産業と在来産業)

明治初年の政情と地方支配 : 「民蔵分離」問題前後

明治初年の政情と地方支配 : 「民蔵分離」問題前後

「大区小区制」下の町村合併と郡区町村編制法 : 明治初年における町村の合併・連合と戸長管区制

「大区小区制」下の町村合併と郡区町村編制法 : 明治初年における町村の合併・連合と戸長管区制

明治前期和式 (たたら) 製鉄業の危機 : 出雲地方を中心として

明治前期和式 (たたら) 製鉄業の危機 : 出雲地方を中心として

明治前期における「自治衛生」と「衛生工事」

明治前期における「自治衛生」と「衛生工事」

明治維新期の京・大坂・江戸における両替商金融(第72回全国大会共通論題)

明治維新期の京・大坂・江戸における両替商金融(第72回全国大会共通論題)

明治初期山口県における「防長塩田会社」の成立過程

明治初期山口県における「防長塩田会社」の成立過程

監獄教誨の誕生 : 明治前期の国家・仏教・統治(新しい近代日本仏教研究へ-自他認識・国民国家・社会参加-,パネル, 第七十回学術大会紀要)

監獄教誨の誕生 : 明治前期の国家・仏教・統治(新しい近代日本仏教研究へ-自他認識・国民国家・社会参加-,パネル, 第七十回学術大会紀要)

国語教科書にみられるコミュニケーション・スタイル : 田中本と榊原本の比較

国語教科書にみられるコミュニケーション・スタイル : 田中本と榊原本の比較

孫 建軍著『近代日本語の起源──幕末明治初期につくられた新漢語──』

孫 建軍著『近代日本語の起源──幕末明治初期につくられた新漢語──』

明治前期北関東における諸営業の展開と諸階層 : 明治一三年、茨城県真壁郡飯塚村連合「地方税額報告書」を中心に

明治前期北関東における諸営業の展開と諸階層 : 明治一三年、茨城県真壁郡飯塚村連合「地方税額報告書」を中心に

明治前期における僧侶養成学校と「俗人教育」 : 真宗本願寺派普通教校の設置をめぐって

明治前期における僧侶養成学校と「俗人教育」 : 真宗本願寺派普通教校の設置をめぐって

明治初期における「教場指令法」の成立 : J.ボールドウィンのSchool Tacticsの受容を中心に

明治初期における「教場指令法」の成立 : J.ボールドウィンのSchool Tacticsの受容を中心に

明治初期の《国楽》概念について : 国民国家形成と欧化(第五十六回美学会全国大会発表要旨)

明治初期の《国楽》概念について : 国民国家形成と欧化(第五十六回美学会全国大会発表要旨)

The emergence of chordal accretions in the lute melodies of tōgaku and its implications for the historical development of the repertory

ABSTRACTThis article re-examines some arguments about the practice of adding orally transmitted arpeggio-like figures, which I term chordal accretions, to the lute melodies of tōgaku (literally ‘Tang music’), a repertory of secular music imported to Japan from China between the seventh and the ninth centuries AD, and performed to this day. Previous scholarship shows divergent ideas regarding the use of arpeggios in the lute melodies: while some researchers believe that, like the modern practice, orally transmitted arpeggios were inserted into the historical melodies, others argue that the modern practice has no precedence in antiquity. Citing examples from historical and musical sources on Tang-dynasty (618–907) secular music and Japanese tōgaku, I demonstrate that arpeggios do in fact have a strong precedence in the antiquity of lute performance in China, and that the Japanese, to a large extent, preserved the Chinese practice during the early transmission of tōgaku. However, these historical arpeggios were different from those used in modern performance in terms of structure, technique and transmission. It was probably the decline of the tōgaku tradition in the fifteenth century and the misunderstanding of some information in historical sources during the standardisation of the repertory in the early Meiji period (1868–1912) that resulted in a reinvention of the functions and structures of such chordal accretions in the lute music of tōgaku.

Benjamin A. Elman (Editor). Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 12.) viii + 232 pp., figs., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015. $135 (cloth).

Benjamin A. Elman (Editor). <i>Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses</i>. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 12.) viii + 232 pp., figs., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015. $135 (cloth).

A Report on the Restoration and Preservation Work of the Former Tsuruoka Police Station designed as Western Style in the Early Meiji Period

A Report on the Restoration and Preservation Work of the Former Tsuruoka Police Station designed as Western Style in the Early Meiji Period

Clothing the Body, Dressing the Identity: The Case of the Japanese in Taiwan during the Colonial Period

In 1895, as soon as the Japanese arrived in Taiwan, their looser mores in terms of public nudity threatened to discredit Japan’s “civilizing” mission in the colony. By domesticating the bare body of the colonizing Japanese through regulations, the Government-General sought to maintain its authority under the gaze of its colonized subjects. This article investigates the complexity of the Japanese identity in the colonial encounter by examining the process of the self-domestication of the body of the colonizer and revealing its connections to previous Japanese bodily experiences during the early Meiji period.

開港期の「神奈川港湾中」

This is a trial study of analyzing the space of the sea, which was indispensable for the port city in early modern Japan. With historical documents and reconstructive maps, this study elucidates the activity of the port managers of Kanagawa in the bay, where ships can anchor safely since medieval period. As a premise, this presents two historical facts. First, the executive council of diplomacy of Tokugawa shogunate grasped the whole area around the bay including several towns and villages as one region for regulating the trade. Second, 80 years before the opening of the port of Yokohama, the port managers demanded to change the location of stakes driven in the sea for remaining the area for anchoring. This indicates that the territory of the port managers included the sea not only their house, estates and unloading places. The drawing attached to the document which depicts the bay of Kanagawa including Yokohama village suggest their spatial interest. The main analysis of this thesis is about the tactical activity of the port managers around the opening of the international port city of Yokohama, which newly developed on the opposite side of the bay of Kanagawa in the middle of the 19th century. They tried to handle even the commodities (especially goods for daily use) carried to the city of Yokohama or for international trading. First, they tried to grasp the right to handle the commodities from Osaka, which had not been permit to them. Second, they approached the administrators of Tokushima domain and Ako domain where huge amount of salt was produced and proposed handling their produce carried to the bay of Kanagawa. The demand of daily necessities should have increased because of development of Yokohama and it seems to have been exactly the chance of expansion of business for the port managers. These activities of the port manager were evidence of the prosperity of the port of Kanagawa. In addition, this thesis present the hypothesis that the petition for change of the location of stakes with the drawing was roots of these activities. The port managers seem to have claimed the bay of Kanagawa as their territory which was necessary for reception of ships from all around Japan. Coupled with the regional administration all around the bay, they tried to enlarge the territory to the vast area including Yokohama. In early Meiji period, the port managers opened the business of handling the commodities in the city of Yokohama. One of the cru of that seems to be the built of reclaimed land and railroad from Yokohama to Kanagawa (towards Tokyo) which destroyed the estates and unloading place in Kanagawa. But we can find the ambition to expand their business because they had petitioned the government for the opening of that business in 1868 before the built of the railway. Focusing on the activities of the port managers in the bay of Kanagawa, we can find that the space of the sea became obvious and developed through the intervention such as stakes, regional administration and the birth of the city of Yokohama.