@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002212,
 author = {Tomasi, Massimiliano and TOMASI, Massimiliano},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {18},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {pdf, Western rhetoric was first introduced into Japan during the early Meiji period and thereafter research on rhetoric gradually blossomed and developed. After the Meiji Restoration, though influenced by the West, Japanese research on rhetoric laid roots in the native soil and reached the point where it achieved its own unique development configuration. Although the development processes of research on rhetoric in both Japan and the West bear considerable resemblance, they are not necessarily congruent. A good many phenomena can only be observed in Japanese research on rhetoric, for example, the movement for unification of the spoken and written languages and Japanese literature's naturalist movement.
However, of particular interest, Japanese rhetorical studies reproduce in virtually identical form the scholarly transitions of Western rhetorical studies. In other words, the transition of rhetorical studies from speech-making methods to education in general composition over a more than 2,000 year span of time can be seen again in Japan. However, in the Japanese case this transition was completed in about fifty years. In this paper, I will examine the transition of Japanese rhetorical research by dividing it into four periods and analyzing each one. The first (1877-1889), the branch of rhetoric which deals with speech-making as seen from its introduction by Ozaki Yukio to Takada Sanae, the second (1889-1902), that branch of rhetoric which deals with literature and composition from Takada Sanae to Shimamura Hôgetsu, in particular that of composition education, the third ( 1902-1909), that branch of rhetoric which deals with aesthetic standards and the logic of metaphor which developed from Shimamura Hôgetsu to Igarashi Chikara, and the fourth (late Meiji to late Taishô) from Igarashi Chikara to the demise of rhetoric in its complete naturalization, i.e. the rhetoric which reached the point where it was applied to all the problems of Japanese language and literature.
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the unified development of modern Japanese rhetoric and how its development process was intimately connected to the problems of the Meiji and Taishô literary worlds and their solutions by clearly delineating the developments in Japanese rhetorical studies since the Meiji Restoration through its objects and purposes of research.},
 pages = {91--108},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　近代日本における修辞学研究の特質　その一つ西洋の修辞学変遷の再現},
 year = {1995},
 yomi = {トマシ, マッシミリアーノ}
}