{"id":9174,"date":"2017-02-11T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.geidai.ac.jp\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2017-02-11T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T04:51:42","slug":"%e3%80%8e%e5%ad%b8%e4%ba%8b%e5%b9%b4%e5%a0%b1%e3%80%80%e8%87%aa%e6%98%8e%e6%b2%bb%e4%b8%89%e5%8d%81%e5%85%ab%e5%b9%b4%e5%ba%a6%e3%80%80%e8%87%b3%e5%a4%a7%e6%ad%a3%e5%9b%9b%e5%b9%b4%e5%ba%a6%e3%80%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.geidai.ac.jp\/en\/9174\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Affairs Annual Report, for the years 1905 to 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018Educational Affairs Annual Report, for the years 1905 (Meiji 38) to 1915 (Taish\u014d 4)\u2019<\/h3>\n

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Document Summary<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

This document is a collection of the Annual Reports submitted to the Minister of Education from the dean of the Tokyo Academy of Music, and has been bound into a single document.[\uff11]<\/a><\/p>\n

             The entries recorded include information on the general situation, official regulations, facilities, the school building and grounds, the employment and wages of the staff members, information about the students and graduate destinations, and so on.<\/p>\n

              In the \u2018Overview\u2019 section of 1905\u2019s (Meiji 38) document, it is recorded that \u201cOn May 3rd, his highness Karl Anton von Hohenzollern of the German royal family came to the academy and listened to the performances of the staff and students\u201d. Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern (1868\u22121919) was a member of the Kingdom of Prussia\u2019s Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen nobility, and came to Japan as a spectating military officer in connection with the Russo\u2013Japanese War. Also, for this Russo\u2013Japanese War, Colonel Pertev Pa\u015fa (Pertev Demirhan, 1871\u22121964) of the Ottoman Empire\u2019s military also came to Japan as a spectating officer for the Japanese military but, in his memoir and diary, it is written that he rode the same boat as Prince Karl Anton from Egypt to Japan.[\uff12]<\/a> However, as for Prince Karl Anton\u2019s visit to the Tokyo Academy of Music and information of the concert on that day, this entry from the Annual Report document is, at present, the only piece of evidence surviving at this university related to this event. It was not even included in the Hyakunenshi<\/em> (100 Year History<\/em>) publication of Tokyo University of the Arts, so this information still needs to be researched in detail from now.<\/p>\n

              From the Annual Report for 1907 (Meiji 40) in the \u201cRegulations\u201d section, the Committee for the Compilation of Songs and the H\u014dgaku Investigation Committee that was established in October that year and for the Music Terminology Investigation Committee, established in January 1908 (Meiji 41), the following information is reported:<\/p>\n

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  1. Committee for the Compilation of Songs aimed to compile collections of songs, as well as it was in the middle of deciding from the collected songs which would be used as materials for the songs and texts that would be used as school songs for middle-school students.<\/li>\n
  2. H\u014dgaku Investigation Committee aimed to preserve and investigate H\u014dgaku music, and commission technical specialists from each of the H\u014dgaku schools to re-investigate Heikyoku, Itch\u016b, Tomimoto, Kiyomoto, Nagauta, etc.<\/li>\n
  3. Music Terminology Investigation Committee, mainly aimed to translate and investigate the musical vocabulary that was necessary for the teachers at the academy, and was in the middle of investigating written materials that were to be compiled into a reference list for music vocabulary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From 1908 (Meiji 41), in the \u201cOverview\u201d[\uff13]<\/a> sections, the H\u014dgaku Investigation Committee\u2019s progress and reports on the repertoire performed in public etc. are especially covered in detail.<\/p>\n

                  In the 11 years covered by this document, there is a consistent complaint about the poor condition of the academy\u2019s facilities in the \u201cFacilities\u201d sections. The school building, built in 1890 (Meiji 23), was also described as \u201cold fashioned\u201d, \u201csmall in scale\u201d, \u201cfaulty\u201d, and \u201cdangerous\u201d. The acoustics for singing and instrumental playing could be heard extremely easily from other rooms and disturbed the studies of classes. Also, there were several educational difficulties such as the need for a concert hall that could hold around 2,000 people,[\uff14]<\/a> and several students were using pianos for 12 hours a day in rotation, every day.[\uff15]<\/a> There are also complaints that, despite there being several unusable instruments, they could not be replaced and repaired as was necessary. In the academy\u2019s records of the staff\u2019s work-related travel activities, there appears to be a director of the students\u2019 field trips listed and it can also be seen that the students travelled to Shizuoka, Enoshima, and Hakone on these trips.<\/p>\n

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