History Editing Bureau

Japanese: 修史局 - しゅうしきょく

A government-run National History Compilation Institute in the early Meiji period. It began in 1869 when the Historiographical Materials Compilation and National History Proofreading Bureau was established within the former Japanese Studies Kodansho. It then became the National History Compilation Bureau and the Dajokan History Department, before being renamed the Historiographical Bureau in 1875, where it collected historical materials and compiled the "Fukkoki" and "Meiji Shiyou." In 1877 it was renamed the Historiographical Institute, and Shigeno Yasutsugu, Kume Kunitake and others began compiling the "Dai Nihon Henronshi." In 1886 it became the Provisional Historiographical Bureau, and in 1888 it was transferred to Tokyo Imperial University, but the project of compiling a general history in Chinese reached a dead end, and it was abolished in 1893. Two years later it was re-established as the Historiographical Materials Compilation Section, whose main purpose was to compile historical materials, becoming the predecessor of the current Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo.

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Japanese:

明治初期の官立国史編纂所。明治2 (1869) 年旧和学講談所内に史料編輯国史校正局が設置されたのに始り，国史編輯局，太政官歴史課を経て 1875年修史局と改称，史料の収集と『復古記』『明治史要』の編纂を行い，77年修史館と改称され，重野安繹，久米邦武らを中心に『大日本編年史』の編纂を開始，86年臨時修史局となり，88年東京帝国大学に移管されたが，漢文による通史の編纂事業は行きづまり，93年廃止，2年後史料の編纂を主たる目的とする史料編纂掛として再興，現在の東京大学史料編纂所の前身となる。

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