@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00020517,
 author = {村瀬, 勉 and 田中, 萬年 and Murase, Tsutomu and Tanaka, Kazutoshi},
 journal = {職業能力開発総合大学校紀要 : B人文･教育編},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The Iwakura Mission extraordinary and plenipotentiary was dispatched to the USA and Europe to make tour of inspection for a year and 10 months (1871-73). The Mission was first proposed by Guido Verbeck, a Dutch missionary, and was named after and headed by Tomomi Iwakura as ambassador, assisted by four vice-ambassadors. Their purpose was three-fold: 1) To visit signatory nations concluded in the days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. 2) To renegotiate the unequal treaties with the USA and others. 3) To gather information on education, technology, culture and military, social and economic structures from Western countries in order to effect the modernization of Japan. The members were administrators, scholars and about 60 students, over 100 people in all. They visited the USA and 12 European countries, making thorough investigations into each country's politics, military affairs, trade and industry, education and culture. On their homeward journey. they made a brief visit to 7 spots. The Mission were impressed by the modernization in Western countries, which later made them take the initiative in modernizing Japan. Kunitake Kume, a historian and official diarist, kept a detailed record of all events and impressions. After his return to Japan, he compiled and published the observation in "the Bei-O Kairan Jikki" in five volumes. The Jikki has encyclopedia knowledge; the terms of science and technology, and of agricultural technology are already classified and compiled. In this paper the terms relating to education were compiled. Moreover, the educational institutions visited by the Mission during the journey were classified by countries and schools. The following results were obtained: the Mission visited many and various educational institutions. 1) Most of them were general schools: grammar schools, junior and senior high schools, and universities. 2) Vocational, technical and business schools. 3) Various institutions for handicapped people. 4) Theological schools. 5) Military schools etc. Statistically most of the institutions were in the U.S.A. and Britain in proportion to the length of the Mission's stay, though the date used in this paper, especially those for Europe, may not cover all the institutions visited by them. The results in this paper, however, clarify qualitatively and quantitatively the Mission's deep interests in education in Western countries, which later made an important contribution to the educational administration in Japan.},
 pages = {1--20},
 title = {「米欧回覧実記」教育関連項目集成 : 岩倉使節団の教育施設訪問の検討},
 volume = {37},
 year = {2008}
}