On the Photographs of 'Kenko-yuryoji' and Children's Bodies in Modern Japan

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  • 「健康優良児」表彰写真と近代日本の子どもの身体
  • ケンコウ ユウリョウジ ヒョウショウ シャシン ト キンダイ ニホン ノ コドモ ノ シンタイ

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This paper focuses on 'image of children' as a feature which is peculiar to modern Japan. In particular 'Kenko-yuryoji-hyosyokai', a selection of healty children according to the physical examination which was held before the war. The results were announced to the Japanese people through pictures in newspapers and magazines. It was early Meiji when Japanese schools first intruduced this kind of physical examination. Tracing back the historical records of the physical examination and pictures of children in the mass media, I aim to examine the processes of the standardization of the image of children's bodies in modern Japan.

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