Color Education in Elementary Schools in the Meiji Era

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  • 明治のころの小学校における色彩教育

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Iro-Zu(Color Chart) which appeared in 1873, was the first attempt at color education in Japan. It was a direct copy of Willson's Charts for object lessons which were prevalent in the United States at that time. After Iro-Zu education came to an end by approximately 1881, there was a long empty period in color education. By the early 1900's, the Amerian system for color teaching was introduced again by Akira Shirahama who had returned from study abroad. In the early 1900's, when Shirahama went abroad to study in the United States, there appeared several color teaching systems there. Shirahama's color teaching system which appeared in Shintei-Ga-Choh (1910) is said to have been based on that of the Textbook of Art Education (1904) by H. B. Froehlich and B. E. Snow. However, it seems that it was also influenced by Color Instruction (1893) by L. Prang. Shirahama's way of color teaching had been put to good practical use beyond the Meiji era.

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