抄録
Kanezane was a Young and powerful nobleman of the latter half of 12th century when Kamakura Government was established after the war between Genji and Heike. My purpose of this research is to follow his reading experience and find the meaning of it according to his diary Gyokuyo. Mainly he was affected by Chinese books of politics and history. In peaceful times when he was young and had nothing to do with politics, his sources of knowledge were his reading and conversation with the aged scholars, During the war, he continued reading but he thought much of the conversation with bureaucracy. After the war, we could not find any account on reading or conversation in his diary.
