Happy Women's Map 岩手県 韓国女性教育の道を拓いた韓国フェミニズムの母 淵沢 能恵 女史
「人には溢るる様な愛をかけなければならない」
"You have to give people overflowing love."
淵沢 能恵 女史
Ms. Noe Fuchizawa
1850 - 1936
岩手県花巻市石鳥谷町 生誕
Born in Ishidoriya-tyo, Hanmaki-city, Iwate-Ken
淵沢 能恵女史は韓国女子教育に献身した女性です。日韓婦人会を創設、李朝厳皇貴妃の支援のもと、李貞淑女史と協力して淑明女学校（のちの淑明女子高等普通学校）を設立・運営しながら近代韓国女性の指導者を育てました。
Mis. Noe Fuchizawa was a dedicated woman who devoted herself to women's education in Korea. She founded the Japan-Korea Women's Association and, with the support of Lady Yi Cheong-wan, the Empress Consort of the Korean Empire, she cooperated with Ms. Yi Jung-suk to establish and operate Shukmyeong Women's School (later known as Shukmyeong Girls' High School) while nurturing modern Korean female leaders.
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「勉強がしたい」
能恵は奥羽で生まれまもなく、下級武士の父・武一と母・カルの養女として育てられます。幼いころは父が教える寺小屋で学び、履物屋に奉公人に出されてからも個人宅に漢文を習いに通います。23歳で結婚するもすぐに離婚、日本初の近代製鉄所で発展していた釜石にいる兄の元に身を寄せます。能恵は福沢諭吉の『学問のすすめ』『西洋事情』を読んで西欧文化にひかれ、29歳のときにお雇い外交人鉱山技師G・パーセルのメイドになり一緒にアメリカに渡ります。ロサンゼルスで1年、さらにサンフランシスコのミス・プリンスの元で2年メイドとして働きながら、洗礼を受けて英語と家政を学びます。帰国後、同志社女学校に入学。年長の能恵は寄宿生活をしながら同期生の面倒をよくみるも、宣教師との意見衝突また学費工面のため退学。上京して東洋英和女学校、一橋高等女学校、下関洗心女学校、福岡英和女学校で教師となりますが、病気のため辞任します。
「愛くるしい朝鮮子女の為に」
50歳の能恵は東京で梅屋文具店を開店、学校運営に関わる様々な人々と人脈を築きます。55歳の時に、貴族委員の子爵岡部長職夫妻と韓国視察旅行に赴き、余生を韓国の女子教育に捧げる決心をします。能恵は韓国皇室へ働きかけ日韓婦人会を創設、李朝厳皇貴妃の支援を受け、1906年明信女学校（後に明新高等女学校、淑明高等女学校と改名）を開校。韓国初の女性校長の李貞淑と相互に信頼関係を結んで学校運営を行います。能恵は学監兼主任教師に任じられ、生徒と寝食をともにしてキリスト教精神の下に献身的に教育に当たります。韓国併合後も、皇民化政策を拒否、３・１独立運動に参加、 抗日示威運動で連行された生徒を体を張って守ります。韓国女性の指導者を養成するための女子専門学校の設立ならびに大学課程の設置を準備をしながら86歳で永眠。淑明の校庭でキリスト教式による学校葬が行われました。
"I want to study !"
Ms.Noe Fuchizawa was raised as an adopted daughter and received education in a small temple house during her early years. Even after working as a servant in a footwear shop, she continued to study Chinese classics at private residences. After divorcing shortly after her marriage, she sought refuge with her brother in Kamaishi, where Japan's first modern ironworks was thriving. Noe became attracted to Western culture after reading Yukichi Fukuzawa's ``Advice to Learning'' and ``Western Circumstances.'' At the age of 29, Noh Eui became a maid to the hired diplomatic mining engineer, G. Parsell, and traveled to the United States with him. She spent one year in Los Angeles and another two years as a maid under Miss Prince in San Francisco while receiving baptism and learning English and home economics. After returning to Japan, she enrolled in Doshisha Women's School. As an older student, Noh Eui took care of her classmates while living at the dormitory, but due to conflicts with the missionaries and financial difficulties, she had to leave school. She moved to Tokyo and became a teacher at Toyo Eiwa Women's School, Hitotsubashi High School for Girls, Shimonoseki Senshin Women's School, and Fukuoka Eiwa Women's School, but had to resign due to illness.
"For lovely Korean girls"
In Tokyo, Noe of 50 years old, opened a stationery store and interacted with various people involved in school operations. At the age of 55, she went on a trip to Korea for inspection with the aristocrat Viscount and Viscountess Okabe and made a decision to dedicate her remaining life to women's education in Korea. She lobbied the Korean royal family and established the Japan-Korea Women's Association. With support from Lady Yi Cheong-wan, the Empress Consort of King Gojong of the Korean Empire, she founded Myeongsin Women's School in 1906 (later renamed Myeongsin Girls' High School and Shukmyeong Girls' High School). She built a mutual trust relationship with the first female principal in Korea, Ms. Yi Jung-suk, and managed the school together. Noh Eui was appointed as the superintendent and head teacher, and she devotedly educated the students under the principles of Christianity, even living and eating with them. Even after the annexation of Korea by Japan, Noh Eui refused to comply with the assimilation policy, participated in the March 1st Independence Movement, and bravely protected students who were arrested during anti-Japanese protests. While preparing for the establishment of a women's specialized school to nurture female leaders and the introduction of university courses, she passed away at the age of 86. A Christian-style school funeral was held in the courtyard of Shukmyeong.
-いわての文化情報大事典 Iwate Cultural Information Encyclopedia
-同志社大学 Doshisya Univ.
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