Restoration Historiographical Society

Japanese: 維新史料編纂会 - いしんしりょうへんさんかい

A government organization established for the purpose of collecting and compiling historical materials related to the Meiji Restoration. It was established on May 10, 1911 by Imperial Ordinance No. 145, but it was the successor to the private organization Shomeikai, which was established the previous year by Inoue Kaoru, Yamagata Aritomo and others for the same purpose. Inoue Kaoru, followed by Kaneko Kentaro, became president, and the secretariat was located within the Ministry of Education. It was originally scheduled to last for 15 years, but continued until the abolition of the government system on May 8, 1942. Its operations passed through the Minister's Secretariat, the Social Education Bureau, and the Textbook Bureau, before being taken over by the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo in April 1949. It published the Restoration Historical Materials Outline (10 volumes, including the documents and cited sources from 1846 to 1871), the Great Japan Restoration Historical Materials (19 volumes), and others, and the number of manuscripts reached 4,180. During World War II, the government published "The History of the Meiji Restoration" (5 volumes, with 1 appendix volume) and other works with the aim of clarifying the national polity.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information

Japanese:

明治維新に関する史料の収集と編纂を目的として設置された官立組織。 1911年5月 10日，勅令 145号をもって設立されたが，前年井上馨，山県有朋らが同じ目的で設立した民間団体彰明会の後身である。井上馨，次いで金子堅太郎が総裁となり，事務局を文部省内におき，当初 15年の予定であったが，42年5月8日，官制廃止まで存続し，その事務は大臣官房，社会教育局，教科書局を経て，49年4月，東京大学史料編纂所に引継がれた。『維新史料綱要』 (10冊，1846～71の綱文および引用史料名を収載) ，『大日本維新史料』 (19冊) その他を刊行したが，その稿本は 4180冊に達した。第2次世界大戦中，国体明徴の趣旨から『維新史』 (5巻，付録1巻) その他を刊行したこともある。

出典　ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典について　情報

<<: Pericardial gland

>>: Prestige goods - Ishinzai