(Ohraimono Bunrui Shusei I)

Collection of textbooks on modern Japanese Education for the common people. In the holdings of the Tokyo University Library, Tokyo.

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Price:
 Printed books, 1,105 items
35mm positive, 66 reels
320 pages
In Japanese
660,000
(Customers in Japan add 5% consumption tax)

This is the collection of "Ohraimono" by Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935), a famous algologist from the Meiji era through the beginning of the Showa era. He collected, investigated and classified the educational books "Ohraimono", as well as doing his own algological researches.

"Terakoya" refers to the prominent educational institutions for the common people; moreover, "Terakoya Kyoiku" was, in those days the elementary education which exceeded standard of education in the world. "Ohraimono" are the textbooks read among teachers and students in "Terakoya". The origin of "Ohraimono" (coming and going letters) came from what teachers taught as fundamental knowledge or manners and etiquette in social life.

Also, this collection is classified into 9 subjects the "Ohraimono" and elementary school textbooks published in Meiji 23 (1890), the year of promulgation of the Imperial Rescript on Education.