座間止水の思想的転回 : 日本における初期社会主義思想の受容の一形態
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The present article takes up an activist by the name of Zama Shisui 座間止水, who began as a socialist during the Meiji era, but during the following Taisho and Showa eras joined the establishment as a member of the youth movement and educational promotion leagues. Zama himself is not a very well known figure and appears only rarely in the intellectual history of prewar Japan. The reason for the author taking up the case of Zama is because his career seem to be a summary of the whole intellectual character of modern Japan. That is to say, on the one hand, 1)Zama was the first known elementary school teacher in Japan to become a member of the Socialist Party, 2)he played for a time a central role in the Socialist right wing's Diet policy faction together with Katayama Sen and Nishikawa Kojiro, and 3)he was at the same time an advocate of "village socialism". On the other hand, after his turn away from socialism at the end of the Meiji era, he became completely emersed in the establishment's philosophy of "leading the masses towards goodness and enlightenment". While tracing Zama's activities and intellectual development, the author attempts to clarify the following points. First, what is the meaning of the heretofore obscure term "village socialism" and its signiticance within early Japanese socialism? Secondly, how are we to evaluate the career of Zama Shisui? Finally, in terms of the first and second points, what are the problems involved in the study of early Japanese socialism? In Chapter 1, the author traces Zama's career from his elementary school teaching to his membership in the Socialist Party, his aggressive speaking tours through the Tokai and Sanyo regions of Honshu, his involvement as a socialist member of the Diet policy faction advocating "village socialism", and his employment by the newspaper, Kokumin Shinbun. Chapter 2 takes up his career during the Taisho era, in which we find him editing a magazine called Teikoku Seinen (Young Men of the Empire), while acting as a lecturer at the Youth Association's central headquarters. His activities during the Showa era are also covered and include his deep involvement in the educational promotion league movement up to the end of World War II. In his concluding section, the author attempts offer Zama's career and intellectual conversion as one problematic for studying understanding the history of modern Japanese thought.
- 財団法人史学会の論文
- 1995-03-20