日本文化の展示 : 1884年ロンドン衛生万国博覧会に展示された日本の音楽資料

概要

論文の詳細を見る
This paper examines the method and materials that the Japanese government employed to explain its own culture to the West, when it got involved in the globalization at the late 19th century. In concrete, the musical instruments and documents, which were sent from a Japanese governmental organization, Institute for Music Investigation (Ongaku Torishirabe Gakari), to the World Hygiene Exposition of London 1884, are analyzed in detail. In order to become part of the "civilized" western alliance, the government felt it necessary for Japan to import western music. Although the western interest was mainly focusing on the Japanese traditional aspect of music, Japan displayed various western musical materials in the Exposition, which were adopted or created for the didactic purpose at that time in Japan, as well as traditional music transcribed into staff notation and theories translated into English. The former intends to show the ability of the Japanese to obtain skill and artistic quality in assimilating the western music.
神戸大学の論文