Abstract
The purpose of this study is to show concretely the fact that educational policy
in Sakai prefecture were reflected in primary school in the period of Gakusei (the Education
System Order) mainly on arithmetic education. As the preparations, we detailed the polices
of our country and the Sakai prefecture to shift to Western mathematics, in our previous note.
In this paper, we further analyze the two books “Syogaku Kyohou (Teaching plan of Elementary
School)” which is written by Seinyo Matsuno. As a result, we make it clear that Syogaku Kyosoku
(elementary school teaching rules) in Sakai prefecture and the contents of an arithmetic
textbook were reflected in elementary schools in Sakai prefecture.
