A General Study of Child-rearing Culture based on Diaries in the Early Modern Period Japan ; to clarify the periods, strata and localities

日记和自传是研究心理史的重要资料。本文以近代早期日本的日记为研究对象。在日记中，与自传相比，我们可以追踪到琐碎的日常事实和作者的价值观。在自传中，我们可以发现许多作家从受教育者的角度对成长过程的记忆的描述，相反，在日记中可能会有成年人对孩子的感情和照顾的记录。作者提到，家庭分支和婚姻范围反映在子女抚养上，阶层在子女抚养目标和生活文化上的差异很大，但通过子女抚养存在转移的可能性。

Diaries and autobiographies are important materials to investigate the history of mentality. In this research the author focused diaries in the early modern period in Japan. In diaries, compared with autobiographies, we can trace trivial everyday facts and writers' sense of values. In autobiographies we find many descriptions of memories of the process of writers growth from the viewpoint of education receivers, on the contrary, in diaries there might be records of feelings and care by adults toward children. The author mentioned that branch families and scopes of marriage reflected on the child-rearing, the differences of strata concerning the goal of child-rearing and life culture were wide, however there were possibilities of transfer through the child-rearing.