Meiji Culture Research Society - Meiji Culture Research Society

Japanese: 明治文化研究会 - めいじぶんかけんきゅうかい

A research group on the Taisho and Showa periods. It was founded in November 1924 by Yoshino Sakuzo, who was concerned about the large-scale disappearance of Meiji-period cultural assets in the Great Kanto Earthquake of the previous year, and eight private researchers, including Ishii Kendo, Osatake Takeshi, Ono Hideo, Miyatake Gaikotsu, and Fujii Jintaro, joined the group in its early days. The group's purpose was to "research all aspects of society since the early Meiji period and to present these as materials for the history of our nation." At regular meetings, the group's and researchers' research, as well as recollections from contemporaries, were presented. In February 1950, the group launched the magazine "New and Old Times," which had published 23 issues by February 1952, after which it was renamed "Meiji Cultural Studies."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

大正･昭和期の研究団体。1924年11月，前年の関東大震災で明治期文化財の大量消滅を憂えた吉野作造によって創立され，初期同人には石井研堂，尾佐竹猛，小野秀雄，宮武外骨，藤井甚太郎ら8名の民間研究者が加わった。会の目的は〈明治初期以来の社会万般の事相を研究し之れを我が国民史の資料として発表すること〉とした。例会では，同人および研究者の研究，同時代人の回顧談などが発表された。25年2月には雑誌《新旧時代》を発刊，27年2月までに23冊刊行，そのあと《明治文化研究》と改題した。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

<<: Complete collection of Meiji culture

>>: Meiji Art Association - Meiji Bijutsukai