Minoru Nishio

A scholar of Japanese literature and Japanese language education. Born in Yutaka Village, Nagano Prefecture (now Anan Town). After graduating from Nagano Normal School (one of the predecessors of Shinshu University), he completed a course in Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University. After working as a secondary school teacher, he served as a professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University and Hosei University, and as the first director of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. In Japanese literature, he particularly studied the works of medieval writers such as Tsurezuregusa, Zeami, and Dogen, and wrote works such as Medieval Things and Their Development (1961) and Zeami's Theory of the Arts (1974). In Japanese language education, he wrote Kokugo kokubun no kyoiku (Education of Japanese Language and Literature) (1929), which discusses the structure of reading and its education, as well as Kotoba to sono bunka (Words and Their Culture) (1947) and Kokugo kyoikugaku no kozo (Concept of Japanese Language Education) (1951).

[Tosaku Furuta October 19, 2018]

"The Complete Works of Nishio Minoru on Japanese Language Education" Vol. 10 and Supplementary Volume 2 (1974-1978, Kyoiku Publishing)" ▽ "Collection of Nishio Minoru's Letters" (1985, Shimoina Education Association) ▽ "Nagano Prefecture Japanese Language Education Association (ed.), Research on Nishio Minoru (1983, Kyoiku Publishing)"

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国文学者、国語教育学者。長野県豊(ゆたか)村（現、阿南(あなん)町）に生まれる。長野師範学校（信州大学の前身校の一つ）卒業後、東京帝国大学国文学科選科修了。中等学校教諭を経て、東京女子大学、法政大学教授、国立国語研究所初代所長などを務めた。国文学では、とくに中世の『徒然草(つれづれぐさ)』、世阿弥(ぜあみ)、道元の著作を研究し、『中世的なものとその展開』（1961）、『世阿弥の能芸論』（1974）などの著作がある。また国語教育では、「読み」の構造とその教育を論じた『国語国文の教育』（1929）のほか、『言葉とその文化』（1947）、『国語教育学の構想』（1951）などの著作がある。

［古田東朔　2018年10月19日］

『『西尾実国語教育全集』10巻・別巻2（1974～1978・教育出版）』▽『『西尾実書簡集』（1985・下伊那教育会）』▽『長野県国語教育学会編『西尾実研究』（1983・教育出版）』

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