A Study of Senior Elementary School Student Visits to Kyūjō (the Imperial Palace Castle) in the 1920s

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  • 1920年代小学校最上級学年児童の宮城拝観についての一考察
  • 1920ネンダイ ショウガッコウ サイジョウキュウ ガクネン ジドウ ノ ミヤギ ハイカン ニ ツイテ ノ イチ コウサツ

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<p>This paper examines the process of how senior elementary school student visits to Kyūjō (the Imperial Palace Castle) were permitted in the 1920s, and clarifies the importance of these visits to Japan’s national education.</p><p>Until the 1910s, only noblemen and those affiliated with higher education institutions were permitted to visit Kyūjō. After that, elementary school principals were permitted to visit Kyūjō, then elementary school teachers. The Young People’s Association was permitted to visit Kyūjō for their efforts in the construction of Meiji Jingu, a Shinto shrine. A request from two school board members (who also were city council members) of Tokyo City for senior elementary students to be allowed to visit Kyūjō was granted by the Imperial Household Ministry. Their aim was to foster children’s admiration for the Imperial Household as a means to improve national education. In 1923, nationwide permission was given for senior elementary school students to visit Kyūjō. In May 1923 and February 1925, children in Tokyo City visited Kyūjō. The Ministry of Education considered children’s visits to Kyūjō an educationally meaningful practice that would cultivate national spirit. Although the visit merely passed through Kyūjō, educators expected it to have a lasting impact on children. One educator even anticipated an enhanced educational effect by influencing children’s innocent minds.</p>

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