Resarch on the history of acupuncture and massage education for the blind education In Korea

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26381010
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Tsukuba University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: FUJII RYOSUKE 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 教授 (70352565)
• Research Collaborator: NAGAOKA Hideji 筑波技術大学, 教授 ; O Temin 大韓按摩師協会附属修練院, 教諭 ; REE Ugan 国立ソウル盲学校理療科, 教諭
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 理療教育史 / 韓国 / 台湾 / 朝鮮総督府済生院 / William Campkel / 木村勤吾

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study shed light on the acupuncture, moxibustion, and massage education provided to the blind in the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan under Japanese colonialism, as described below. While the acupuncture, moxibustion, and massage education in Korea was established in the Blind and Deaf Education Department of Saisei-in (facility for the socially vulnerable) at the Government-General of Korea (1913) under the government’s initiative, the massage education in Taiwan was led by private initiatives such as the Education Department for the Blind of Tainan Jikei-in (facility for the socially vulnerable) founded by William Campbell (1900) and Kimura Blind and Deaf School founded by Kingo Kimura (1915). In both Korea and Taiwan, the education was provided in line with the Law on Massage and Acupuncture published in Japan (1911), contributing to the introduction of Japanese occupational culture allowing the blind to be economically independent. This has great contemporary significance.

Free Research Field

鍼灸社会学