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第2号

 瀬畑 源 Hajime Sebata
小泉信三の象徴天皇論 : 『帝室論』と『ジョオジ五世伝』を中心として
Shinzo Koizumi's Theory of the Symbolic Emperor - A Study of "Teishitsuron" and "King George The Fifth"
2007年03月 発行

[ 要旨 ]

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[ Abstract ]

  This paper examines how Shinzo Koizumi, who was in charge of the education of Emperor Akihito in his youth, considered the political role of the symbolic Emperor under the Japanese Constitution. From the various written works that Koizumi had read with the Prince, this paper will focus on Yukichi Fukuzawa’s Teishitsuron and Harold Nicolson’s King George The Fifth and consider how Koizumi integrated the two contrasting theories of monarchy.
  The characteristics of Koizumi’s view of emperor were that he did not analyze the historical significance of the Imperial Household but rather emphasized the point of how to rationally carry out the Emperor system. Therefore, he arbitrarily selected what ideas to adopt and what not to from the work of his mentor Fukuzawa, which was an extremely political judgment on Koizumi’s part.
  Fukuzawa’s Teishitsuron has been influenced by William Bagehot’s The English Constitution and emphasizes that the Imperial Household, which has been completely separated from politics, plays an important role of national integration. According to Nicolson, King George V was also influenced by Bagehot, but the king was influenced by the methodology of the political behaviour of a king. Koizumi tried to connect these two different theories using Bagehot. This was possible because the former describes the role of the symbolic Emperor under the Japanese Constitution while the latter is a theory that explains the political behaviour of the Showa Emperor (Hirohito), therefore, Koizumi thought it was necessary to give an explanation that is consistent and connects the two contrasting theories.
  In other words, Koizumi’s theory on the symbolic Emperor presented ways on how to understand the symbolic Emperor system under the Japanese Constitution.