A Study on the Promotion of National Physical Education by the Japan Physical Education Association

With Reference to the Display Activities through Expositions from the Late Meiji Era to the Early Taisho Era 　

Abstract

　　Three exhibitions the Japan Physical Education Association participated, 5th national industrial exhibition 1903, Tokyo industrial exhibition 1907 and Tokyo Taisho exhibition 1914, from the late Meiji era to the early Taisho era when the imperialism has gone ahead in Japan, were the trials in the appearance of entertainment tendency including colonial and show-like display becoming one tide at exhibitions after the Taisho era. On the basis of the above-mentioned trend in the exhibition, the purpose of this study is to clarify the aspect of promotion of national physical education through exhibitions from a point of view that the occasional thought about the promotion of national physical education in the international field of vision of The Japan Physical Education Association was concretized by concentrating power to both sides, “Traditional Japan display” and “Modern Japan display” to focus on display activities of them.
　　The points clarified in this study are as follows.
　　The Japan Physical Education Association attempted to promote national physical education concentrating power to “Traditional Japan display” at 5th national industrial exhibition and “Modern Japan display” at Tokyo industrial exhibition. Retardation of the preparation for “Modern Japan display” and one end of entertainment tendency on “Traditional Japan display” arose. Afterward, the fluctuation on the promotion of national physical education was exposed at Tokyo Taisho exhibition because The Japan Physical Education Association has concentrated power to entertained “Traditional Japan display” being the most basic objective by pulling in customers to plan the reconstruction of finance having gotten worse on the occasion of participation in exhibition. The Japan Physical education Association’s display activitiers, that concentrated power to both “Traditional Japan display” and “Modern Japan display” in turn at each exhibition, added show-like display gradually and fitted into the category of entertainment tendency at exhibition world in the end at Tokyo Taisho exhibition, however, colonial display wasn’t formed through three exhibitions.