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材料。在本研究中，笔者以日本近代早期的日记为研究对象。在日记中，与自传相比，我们可以追溯日常琐碎的事实和作家的价值观。在自传中，我们可以看到许多从教育接受者的角度对作家成长过程的记忆的描述，相反，在日记中可能记录了成年人对儿童的感情和关怀。作者提到，支系家庭和婚姻范围反映在育儿上，关于育儿目标和生活文化的阶层差异很大，但也存在通过育儿进行转移的可能性。

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.