Art Education as Examined through Musical Compositions and Art Works Commissioned to The Tokyo Academies of Music and of Fine Arts between 1890 and 1949

由东京音乐学院附属机构创作的学校赞美诗和其他官方歌曲，以及如今作为旅游景点而闻名的雕像/纪念馆(如草木正树和高森斋吾的雕像)都是政府、皇宫、富豪等政府委托给东京音乐学院和明治和昭和时代美术学院的作品的插图。这些委员会反映了书院与现代日本政府和社会的关系，从而为我们提供了阅读现代日本的社会、文化和政治轨迹的钥匙。我们对内部文件和委托的实际工程等进行的审查和调查，以及我们对专员的采访都表明，尽管这两个领域的委员会都表示它们非常接近关于普通艺术教育和国家现代化的政策，但它们各自出于不同的意图和范围，从而对社会产生了不同的影响。

The school hymns and other official songs composed by those affiliated with the Tokyo Academy of Music, as well as statues/memorials now famous as tourist spots (such as the statues of Masashige Kusunoki and Takamori Saigo) are instances that illustrate works commissioned by the government, Imperial House, plutocracy, etc. to the Tokyo Academies of Music and of Fine Arts in the Meiji and Showa eras. These commissions reflect the Academies’ relations to the government as well as the society of modern Japan and thus provide us with keys to reading the social, cultural, and political trajectories of modern Japan. The examination and investigation we conducted on internal documents and the actual works commissioned, etc. as well as our interviews with commissioners, have revealed that, while commissions in both fields equally indicate their close proximity to policies on general education in the arts and the modernization of the state, they each were conducted on different intentions and scopes, thus resulting in different impacts on the society.