Intelligent Tradition of the east Asia seen in the Education of Tsubouchi Shoyo

During the Meiji Restoration, the politicians, scholars, and intellectuals moved Japan forward under pressure from other countries. It is very meaningful to look into what they had studied and where. Many of the writers who lived in the Meiji or Taisho periods had the experience of going to private schools and han schools (schools of the feudal domains), and their ancestors were scholars of the Chinese classics or Juku presidents. In addition, there were some scholars who ran their own Jukus or compiled textbooks. In the field of Japanese literature, the studies of the writers’ works and the study of the writers have been conducted mainly based on biographical facts of them, and there have been almost no studies of education associated with their qualities. What was taught in Jukus or han schools, such as the study of the Chinese classics, Western studies, and English, varies according to regions or environments. I’d like to consider what scholars and intellectuals learned in Shoins (Juku) located in Japan, the neighbors of Chinese cultures, and how they changed it and passed it down. In this report, I delve into what the Juku where Shoyo Tsubouchi, who reached school age of elementary education when the new educational system had not yet been determined, studied was like, what he learned, and how he felt and studied the nature and vision of the elementary and secondary education of Shoyo