Abstract
I discussed whether Nitta Jiro's novel Seishoku no Ishibumi was effective as teaching material for a class in history of art education. This novel uses as its subject an accident at a senior elementary school in Nagano in 1913, and describes the education circumstances at the time. Yamamoto Kanae gave a lecture at Kangawa Elementary School in Nagano Prefecture in 1918 that became the starting point of the "Jiyu-ga Kyoiku" (free drawing education) movement. Seishoku no Ishibumi depicts education in Nagano, so to speak, just before the dawning of "Jiyu-ga Kyoiku". I selected from Seishoku no Ishibumi various excerpts which effectively present the following two points. 1) The grounding for the "Jiyu-ga Kyoiku" movement 2) Factors hampering the "Jiyu-ga Kyoiku" movement
