Imperial edict of education
The Imperial education edict ( Jap. 教育ニ関スル勅語 , Kyōiku ni kansuru chokugo , dt. "Education Affected by edict", also briefly 教育勅語 , Kyōiku chokugo , dt. "Education edict") was the thirtieth October 1890 from the Meiji -tennō enact. The text was less of a law in the strict sense than a well-meaning teaching of the Tennō to the Japanese people.
The edict shifted the focus of the Japanese educational system established as part of the Meiji Restoration away from the originally American-influenced knowledge building back to moral training based on the Confucian model. This change was a concession to the growing conservative forces in the country and numerous protests in the population.
The edict was sent to all schools in the country by the Imperial Court Ministry . Together with pictures of the ruling imperial couple, it formed the highest sanctuary in any school. In some rural schools it was kept in a chapel-like house and on festive occasions it was read by the school principal.
Web links
- German translation ( Memento from May 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of Andreas Kley, Chair of Constitutional Law and Constitutional History at the University of Bern
- Illustration of the edict (Japanese)