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xi Tables 1 Social Background of Senior Officers of the Meiji Government, 1868–1873 — 12 2 Family Background of Senior Officials of the Meiji Government, 1868–1873 — 12 3 Income Sources for Local Education, 1873 — 137 4 Buildings Used as Public Elementary Schools, 1876 — 139 5 Gender Gap among Elementary School Teachers during the First Years of the Gakusei, 1873–1874 — 149 6 Teacher Salaries at a Local Elementary Public School District in Early Meiji Japan — 151 7 Elementary School Attendance during the First Year of the Gakusei, 1873 — 152 8 Financing the First Public Elementary Schools, 1873 — 164 9 Elementary School Attendance during the First Three Years of the Gakusei, 1873–1875 — 170 10 Public and Private School Attendance in Tokyo, 1878 — 239 11 Public and Private Schools in Tokyo, 1878 — 240 12 The Imperial Tours, 1878 — 266 13 Critical Sequence of Events, “The Imperial Will on Education,” 1878–1879 — 274 14 Critical Sequence of Events, The Second National Plan for Education (Kyōku Rei), 1878–1880 — 280 15 Elementary School Attendance Rates, 1873–1879 — 281 16 Elementary Schools, 1873–1879 — 282 17 Public Elementary School Teachers, 1873–1879 — 282 18 Income Sources for Local Education, 1873–1879 — 283 19 Critical Sequence of Events, End of the Tanaka Fujimaro Era — 286 20 Tokyo University Foreign Faculty, 1881–1885 — 308 21 Proportion of Local Community Budgets for Education, 1880–1884 — 312 22 Elementary School Attendance, 1880–1885 — 313 ...

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