2004 Volume 25 Pages 127-139
This paper makes four aspects clear about the drawing books, regarding three styles of them, namely, pencil drawing, brush drawing and educational drawing, which were adopted by secondary schools in the late Meiji era, by analyzing the department of education's lists of them for the school years 1907 and 1910. 1.Koyama's and Asai's pencil drawing books, Araki's brush ones and the Society of Drawing Education's educational ones were adopted mostly. 2.Of those adopted by middle schools in the school year 1907; about one half of all the books adopted were pencil ones and the other half educational ones. But in the school year of 1910, educational books rose to 75% and pencil books fell to 20%. Of those adopted by girl's high schools; brush drawing books amounted to 70-80% in both those school years. 3.Between the two school years, educational ones adopted by the middle schools changed places with pencil ones. On the contrary, of the girl's high schools, brush drawing books held apparent superiority in numbers compared to others. 4.The style of books adopted by a school was not always the same as that which the drawing teacher of the school had learned in his training days.
