@article{oai:jissen.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002161,
 author = {久保, 貴子},
 issue = {6},
 journal = {実践女子大学下田歌子記念女性総合研究所年報, The Annual Bulletin of the Shimoda Utako Research Institute for Woman},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {"During the turbulent Meiji period, the whole nation of Japan sought to westernize itself. Its modern education was to be built on the exploratory path of this period, which can be dubbed the modernization of Japan. The “Education System” promulgated in January 1872 was based on the high aspiration that universities, junior high schools, and elementary schools are to be set up across the country to educate the whole nation regardless of the social status and gender”. In regard to music education, however, the plan of “singing at elementary schools and playing musical instruments at junior high schools” initiated as teaching subjects was subject to the provision “However, they will not be implemented for the time being” so that the teachers could not immediately start teaching or prepare textbooks (music scores). Neither was there any arrangement to provide musical instruments. In fact, Japan finally saw the dawn of music education when the Music Research Center (Ongaku Torishirabegakari) was established in 1879 (Meiji 12). According to “the Prospects of the Music Research Center”, “the music education at schools should be unique to Japan, combining the strengths of both western and Japanese music without leaning on either type of music” and it was premised on the creation of “national music” suitable for the newborn Meiji Japan. Thus, with the promulgation of a series of school ordinances in 1886 (Meiji 19), the music education that combined both Japanese and Western music was also to develop, and Utako Shimoda would become responsible for the modern education for girls at the Peeresses’ School.

Gagaku, which was originally the music for the ritual ceremonies of the Imperial Court during the Heian period, also went through significant reforms. The Japanese-Western eclectic singing education was also developed by this time, when the performance of western music had already become permanent ,with the Department of Gagaku being placed under the Great Council of State in Meiji 3 (1870); “Songs Authorized by the Ministry of Education” (Songs to be sung at elementary schools) was published in May, 1910(Meiji 43). Utako Shimoda wrote song lyrics herself, including “Kanko Song” and “Late Fall”, and most of the composers of the songs were “Reijin” (court musicians) from the Department of Gagaku. The songbooks of the Jissen Women’s Vocational School, the Jissen Women’s High School, and the Jissen Women’s Second High School are still preserved today, and we can see the levels of the singing education given at those schools. Such music education was also to develop widely in close connection with the physical education aimed at gaining fitness.

Alongside the historical context of the reforms in music education, this paper attempts to examine the life of Utako Shimoda who literally lived for women’s education as she changed her career path from a court lady and a poet of the Imperial Palace, which went through major reforms for the first time since the Heian period, to a supervisor and a professor of the Peeresses’ School and experienced an inspection tour of Europe and the US."},
 pages = {(1)--(17)},
 title = {下田歌子と音楽教育},
 year = {2020}
}