Abstract
The previous historical studies of physical education had shown that the period, covering the policy of school physical education from Mori's edcational administration to the establishment of the revised Elementary School Law, developed comsecutively. In this study it was intended to modify this historical image, by elucidating the incoordinated phases of school physical education in this period in connection with the formation of the national ideology. To establish national ideology was a main theme in the forming stage of the national education system. 1) The main content of Mori's physical education plan was a physical training through military drills and this was the principal position in forming the national ideology. Causing some contradictions among the government, the military service, the educational world and the masses, Mori's policy of physical and moral education developed. 2) At the late period of Mori's educational administration, practical education was emphasized in relation to the formation of national ideology, and when the Revised Elementary School Law was established, physical education was legislated as an optional subject in Jinjo-Shogakko, or compulsory elementary education. The policy to promote physical education was toned down in the educational policy, because criticisms against Mori's policy to form national ideology was immanent in "Kyoiku-chokugo".
