Studies on the Inventing Process of a Japanese National Music as New and Anti-Christian Traditions

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This research, that intended to explain the contribution of organizations and persons to invent the national music as a new, religious and anti-Christian tradition, got the following results.From the 10th year of Meiji, an approach to school songs was made by various organizations The Imperial court poets as for example Kabe Izuo and Saisho Atsuko took an important part in the song production of these organizations and worked as songwriters.In the piano instruction system of the New England Conservatory of Music the exercises from F. Beyer's "Vorschule im Klavierspiel" were used. The Japanese first institution of music education was assisted by the Conservatory and introduced as one of the instruction books F. Beyer's "Vorschule im Klavierspiel".The modal notation system of the "Ritse and "Ryo" was used first in the 11th year of Meiji in the "Hoiku-Shoka." In the 24th and 25th year of Meiji, the Imperial Court musicians composed new melodies for military ceremonies asked from the Ministry of the Navy and Army. The practiced Gagaku-pieces and the number of performances in religious ceremonies of the imperial-household were reformed at the beginning of Taisho and Showa and then continues till today.In 1881, a song book for the use of Shinto believers was published at the Afuri shrine in the Kanagawa prefecture by Gonda Naosuke. The book contains songs that were, according to the foreword, introduced several years before as a reaction against the spread of Christian hymns and thus are one of the earliest examples of song production in modern Japan. Later Gonda Naosuke was appointed as a professor at the Koten Kokyu Sho, a new Shinto school founded in 1882, and although he never began to teach there, it seems that he had some influence also on school music education.