日本『国定修身書』に見られる女性の役割と女性像－実在の人物を中心に－

Abstract

This study examined how real-life women featured in “Japanese national ethics textbooks” for the 5 periods from the 1st period(the year of 1904) to the 5th period (1941), and realized their roles, proving the women figures and the educational purposes of Japanese government at that time. Those were 25 women figures included in all, out of the 221 historical figures for the periods in those textbooks, which amounts 30 volumes.(6 volumes per a period) The writer found that the female figures were roughly one tenth of the total numbers, otherwise most of them were males, and that the females included were carefully selected for the purposes She(the writer) Pointed out that they applied those contents concerning the ideal womanhood in the Children textbooks regardless of their poor consideration, instead of the Girls’ ethics text, concluded that it was the educational approach of Japanese government at that time. This thesis might be helpful for the further studies for the figures (characters) presented in the “Japanese national ethics textbooks” at the age.