The Argument on Girls\u27“Shamisen” Skill Acquisition in a Popular Newspaper of Early Meiji:A Study on the Modernization of “Yugei”

本稿は，明治初期小新聞における〈娘〉の三味線習得をめぐる議論の検討を通じて，同時期における青少年女子の遊芸習得の社会的位置づけについて考察する。近世後期において三味線は，武家奉公を目的とする町人層の青少年女子に習得されたが，明治初期小新聞において，編集者側，投書家双方から，就学を妨げる因習として批判に晒される。ただし，当時，就学を通じた将来像が社会的に共有されていなかったため，とりわけ投書家間で，青少年女子の三味線習得それ自体への批判は徹底しなかった。以上から，「国家に益なき遊芸」観が支配的だったとされる明治初期において，青少年女子の遊芸習得が完全には駆逐されがたい状況にあったことを示唆する。Doctor Course, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo/JSPS Research FellowThis paper considers the various aspects of the social positioning of girls\u27Yugei acquisition in the periodthrough an examination of the argument involving the Shamisen skill acquisition of a “daughter” in a smallnewspaper of early Meiji.Although the Shamisen was mastered by the young women in the townspeople’s social class with the aim ofservicing samurai families in the second half of the modern period, in a small newspaper of early Meiji, it wasexposed to criticism from both the editors’ side and contributors as a convention which barred them fromentering school. However, since the future course of the women who did enter school was not an image that wasshared socially in those days, the contributors did not thoroughly criticize the young women’s acquisition ofShamisen itself.From the above, it can be suggested that in early Meiji, even with its dominant outlook of "Yugei has no valueto the state," the situation was such that a young woman\u27s Yugei acquisition was hard to be driven out completely.論文/These