AsianForum 151th "FUKUAZWA YUKICHI AS A PUBLISHER"

151th
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
14:00-15:00
Conference Room 203/204, Dialogue House 2F

竹中 英俊 (TAKENAKA Hidetoshi)
常任顧問、東京大学出版会
Executive Director, University of Tokyo Press

出版人としての福沢諭吉
(FUKUAZWA YUKICHI AS A PUBLISHER)
福沢諭吉は、コピーライト＝版権の考えを日本で確立し、自ら印刷・製本・出版・販売を担い、福沢屋諭吉を名乗り、大学出版部の先駆たる慶応義塾出版局を明治5年に興した人物である。明六社、東京学士会院、交詢社、時事新報社にも大きな役割を果した彼を「出版人＝パブリッシュする人＝パブリックな行為に関る人」として捉え、その「読む人・書く人・作る人」としての事績を追うことにより、今日に示唆するものを考える。
(Fukuzawa Yukichi, the person who introduced the idea of copyright into Japan, was himself a publisher; he developed expertise in the printing, bookbinding, publishing, and selling of books, many of them bearing his own name. It was Fukuzawa who established the Keio Gijuki Press in 1872, a pioneer in university publishing facility. He also played an important role in the establishment of the Meirokusha, the Tokyo Academy (Tokyo Gakushi Kaikan), the Kojunsha publishing hosue, and the Jiji Shinpo newspaper. It was his idea that “a publisher is someone who is committed to public affairs.” Fukuzawa’s example of “a person who reads, a person who writes, and a person who makes things” is a good lesson for us today.)

Lecture in Japanese