Aspects of Color Education in Modern Japan

Abstract

In modern Japan, color education begins with "Irozu" in elementary education as the beginning. However, "Irozu" disappears from the educational system in just a few years, and then it takes a considerable amount of time for color education to be included in the education system again. Color educational contents did not become uniform. Such non-uniformity and large amount of change of color education are also related to changes of the social environment and culture. It is necessary to consider various factors. Such was influx and increase of Western color materials / color names related to the trend of watercolors / oil painting hobbies. And people had trend of tiredness about classical Chinese. And there ware change of social system accompanying with war. This research does not consider color education only within the framework of the system of art education and color education, but also looks at the state of historical change of color culture accompanying social situation and cultural change. Therefore, I will rearrange the various aspects of color education in modern Japan that tends to be considered vaguely in a unified way.