盆栽雑誌の記述に現れる山名次郎の思想

―最初期社会教育論の再検討に向けて―

抄録

  While Yamana Jiro’s name has traditionally found a place in the study of social education, historical materials concerning him have not been updated for a long period. This paper introduces previously overlooked materials on Yamana that were discovered during the author’s research on modern bonsai culture.

  The featured articles are from Bonsai Gaho, which was published during the Meiji and Taisho periods, and Bonsai, which was published during the Taisho and Showa periods. These articles include Yamana’s perspectives on social education, as they are elaborated in his Shakai Kyoiku Ron (Theory of Social Education). They also illustrated Yamana’s active involvement in the community surrounding bonsai during that era.

  Examining Yamana’s bonsai-related activities, we can reconsider his role as an origin for modern Japanese social education and, by extension, we can contribute to the broader re-examination of the history of social education itself. The most immediate task is to clarify the ways in which Yamana’s educational theories and bonsai theories were continuous and corresponding and to describe the relationship between the two in a consistent manner through the examination of the historical context of the period when Yamana’s articles on bonsai were written.