著者
片渕 美穂子
出版者
日本体育・スポーツ哲学会
雑誌
体育・スポーツ哲学研究 (ISSN:09155104)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, no.2, pp.1-13, 2000
被引用文献数
1

The purpose of this paper was to clarify the ideal of a human being in the discourse of &ldquo;Yojo&rdquo; and &ldquo;Eisei&rdquo;, examining the acceptance of the anatomy and the role of &ldquo;Kaika&rdquo;, the view of cultural and social development.<br>The main results were summarized as follows;<br>i) &ldquo;Yojo&rdquo;, &ldquo;Eisei&rdquo; and &ldquo;health&rdquo; made peoples approach the ideal of a human being in &ldquo;Bunmei Kaika&rdquo;, the spirit of the time in early Meiji era. So they gave good reasons for the new westernized customs in those days. The &ldquo;strongly-built&rdquo; body and &ldquo;incisive brain&rdquo;, which based on the anatomy, were the characteristics of the ideal of a human being in the custom of &ldquo;Kaika&rdquo;.<br>ii) &ldquo;Yojo&rdquo; in the Edo era had no idea of &ldquo;strongly-built&rdquo; body. The &ldquo;strongly-built&rdquo; body proceeded from the acceptance of modern medical science on &ldquo;Yojo&rdquo; and the combination of physical activity and production of things.<br>iii &ldquo;Yojo&rdquo; in the Edo era had no relation to the incisiveness. The ideal of the &ldquo;incisive brain&rdquo; which was able to bring to &ldquo;Kaika&rdquo;, proceeded from the understanding that a brain had been the center of mental function.<br>iv) The idea of &ldquo;Kaika&rdquo; in the discourses of &ldquo;Yojo&rdquo; and &ldquo;Eisei&rdquo; caused the anatomically explained body to be combined with the social value and the national interests.
著者
片渕 美穂子
出版者
スポーツ史学会
雑誌
スポーツ史研究 (ISSN:09151273)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.15, pp.47-60, 2002-03-08 (Released:2017-03-18)

The discourses of Yojo (looking after one's health) in Japan from the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century often required having one's "Yoku" (desire) under control. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the episteme of the body in the discourses of Yojo, from the Kaibara Ekken Yojokun (1713) to Mizuno Takusai Yojoben Kohen (1851), examining the concept of "Yoku". The episteme of the body in this paper was the mechanism of perception and idea of the body. Three procedures were employed for the purpose of this paper. The first was to confirm the relation between "Qi" (substance or energy) and body, and to examine the growth of the concept of "Qi" in the discourses of Yojo. The second was to clarify the relation between economic activity in urban society in that era and having one's Yoku under control in Yojo. The last was to clarify the relation of the concept of "Yoku" and the inside of the body and self-consciousness. The main results can be summarized as follows. The main points of Yojo were filling and surrounding the body with "Qi". Yojo, considered that "Yoku" and "Gaija" (the course of a disease) reduced and congested "Qi", which existed in the body. The increase of having one's "Yoku" under control in the discourses of Yojo from the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century strengthened the connection between "Qi" and "Yoku". This brought about the importance of the control of one's "Yoku". The background to this increasing tendency toward having one's "Yoku" under control was the development of the urban monetary economy. A consumption-based, affluent culture had been found desirable, and Yojo claimed control over it. In the discourses of Yojo, there was "Yoku" within one's own body. Self-consciousness was the result of having one's "Yoku" under control. "Yoku" in the discourses of Yojo was a conceptual apparatus that established the connection between "Qi" and moral acts, and a continual care of oneself as a practical moral being.