Abstract
During this research, I examined the effects of visual educational materials on education floor plans and equipment ledgers used at the former Kaichi school during the Meiji era. The three findings are listed below. 1) According to the analysis of the equipment register in 1910, I found that the school possessed 1,244 wallcharts. 2) It was revealed that 198 (16%) were created by “staff (or teachers)” by totaling the number of “authors or sellers.” It was found that the “staff (or teachers)” created teaching materials closely related to maps, history, and industry during the Shinshu area, and were influenced by the “Matsumoto Educational Exposition.” 3) It was revealed that Shusui Okakura, a Japanese-style painter, and Kiyoshi Morikawa, a drawing lecturer at Women’s Higher Normal School, were painters of educational wallcharts. It is suggested that schools were aesthetically sensitive to these painters’ paintings, although indirectly, through their use in the educational curriculum of other subjects.
