Education in the Middle Ages of Japan and Chinese Culture : Focusing on "village school" , "elementary school" and "Imperial examination" in Literature of the Five Mountains

The medieval Japan was an era when the social education system had undergone a major change. There are not a few changes involved in cross-cultural negotiations. In particular, the "village school" that often appears in Literature of the Five Mountains is a representative example. The Mountains Zen monks, who admired Chinese culture, borrowed terms such as "village school" and "elementary school" from Chinese registries and expressed a unique Japanese educational place different from China. On the other hand, through these educational facilities called "village school" and "elementary school" at Zen institutes of Zen monks, traditional Chinese academy education limited to aristocrats and scholars spreads to ordinary people such as junior samurai, merchants and farmers. I decided to follow it.中谷伸生教授古稀記念