著者

橋川 俊樹 Toshiki Hashikawa

雑誌

共立国際研究 : 共立女子大学国際学部紀要 = The Kyoritsu journal of international studies

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, pp.125-144, 2013-03

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Sanshiro, the eponymous main character of Soseki Natsume's novel MSanshiro" was a freshman in the Department of English at Tokyo Imperial University. This paper explores whether, if he had actually carried out his lifelong aim of learning, especially English literature, what kind of Anglicist he would have been.In Chapter 1: MThe future to be a famous scholar". I consider Sanshiro's ideal scholar.In Chapter 2: M Department of English in the Faculty of Literature in 1907", I consider the situation in the Department of English of Tokyo Imperial University in September 1907. At that time. Soseki and Bin Ueda resigned as lecturers and John Laurence (1850-1916) became the head of the Department of English. I discuss these circumstances with a focus on Soseki. who was treated coldly, and the situation of students in the Department of English.In Chapter 3: MThe Time of fohn Laurence", I present Laurence's career as the head of Department of English and his contribution to Tokyo University, and make referral to the work that which illustrate his figure and character his lectures. His biggest accomplishment was to cultivate followers of his learning. I focus on one of them, and consider the competition between Sanki Ichikawa and Takeshi Saito for professorship in Chapter 4: M Tsutomu Chiba and the Department of English after Laurence's death". In this chapter, Yaeko Nogami's novel M Assistant Professor B." the main character which was modeled on Chiba, is also considered.In Chapter 5: M What kind an Anglicist would Sanshiro be?", I sum up the whole paper.

著者

橋川 俊樹 Toshiki Hashikawa

雑誌

共立国際研究 : 共立女子大学国際学部紀要 = The Kyoritsu journal of international studies

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, pp.149-172, 2018-03

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This is the essay about Soseki Natsume's stepfather, Shigekazu Nakane. In December 1895, Soseki-his real name was Kin-nosuke Natsume-met Kyoko Nakane in an arranged marriage meeting at the official residence of the Chief Secretary of the House of Peers in Uchisaiwaicho, Tokyo. Her father Shigekazu had hald position of Chief Secretary of the House of Peers since February the previous year. He was at the height of his career.As Soseki described in "Michikusa" (1915), when He returned from England in 1903, Nakane was extremely impoverished and could not afford even an overcoat. He had no work and had heavy debts from a big loss which he had suffered on the stock market.Soseki had a bad relationship with his stepfather. He did not even attend his funeral when he died in 1906. But Soseki was more or less under the influence of Nakane.Basic information on Nakane "Soseki no Omoide (The memory of Soseki)" which was dictated by Kyoko Natsume and written by Yuzuru Matsuoka, but it does not tell much about him. This essay made a thorough investigation about him.In 1851, Nakane was born at the edo-hantei (residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo) of Fukuyama-han at Nishikata-machi, Tokyo. At the time of the Meiji restoration (1868), his family moved to Fukuyama in Hiroshima Pref.. Fukuyama-han ran schools named Seishikan in both Edo and Fukuyama. This essay reports the education Nakane received at both schools.Second, Nakane enrolled in the Igakko (now the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine,). However, his purpose was not to be a doctor but to study German. This essay describes about the medical education and German language education at the school, and his life in the dormitory.Finally, Nakane left the Igakko after two years and worked for Tokyo Shojakukan (now the National Diet Library) from 1875 to 1877. The essay conjectures about Nakane's work here.Investigating Nakane's life provides meaningful study of a man who lived in the Meiji era.