@article{oai:rekihaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001284,
 author = {本康, 宏史 and Motoyasu, Hiroshi},
 journal = {国立歴史民俗博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Japanese History},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {application/pdf, 本稿では、北陸の「技術文化」の諸事例を紹介し、地域社会における蘭学知識との影響関係を確認するため、加賀藩域を中心とした概括的な検証を試みた。
江戸後期、「科学技術」をめぐる諸制度・研究・交流及び器具や製品の製作等、いわば「技術文化」の蓄積は、分野や地域を越えて展開した。例えば、加賀藩でも、大坂の麻田剛立の高弟西村太冲や江戸の本多利明の影響を受けた遠藤高璟、河野久太郎ら金沢の科学者グループが、時法の改正や彗星観測などにみる高水準の天文知識の導入に尽力している。その際、遠藤らは、精巧な「垂揺球儀」を使用して、独自の十三分割時法を制定するなど、蘭学知識にもとづく天文学や理化学の成果を取り入れたのであった。なお、この背景には、蘭学者杉田成卿の高弟松田東英が考案した箱型望遠鏡など、高度な科学技術が関係していたのである。一方、遠藤を中心とする藩士らは、金沢城下の詳細な町図作成に際し、越中新湊の和算家石黒信由の測量技術を用いつつ、正確な測量を実施している。その際、遠藤の考案した天体測量器に添えられた刷物には、翻訳者として蘭学医黒川良安の名もみえている。
こうしたなかで、機巧師大野弁吉のケースは、この地域の事例のなかでも特異な存在といえよう。一介の細工職人にすぎない弁吉が、その突出した技術と好奇心から、幕末加賀藩における「技術文化」の、いわばキーパーソン的な様相をみせるに至るのである。このような、弁吉に代表される職人による地域蘭学へのコミットと、逆に職人の技術を槓杆とした加賀蘭学の展開の実態が、この地域の特色のひとつといえよう。
かくして、加賀の「技術文化」は、天文学や測量術の優れた事例や時制の改正事業にみられるように、かなりの水準を保持しつつ、この地域独特の達成に至ったものと思われる。そして、こうした加賀藩の「技術文化」を支えたのが、実学者（技術者）と蘭学者（地域蘭学）の相互補完関係だったといえるのである。, This paper introduces examples of “technical culture” in the Hokuriku region, and is a general investigation into mainly the Kaga feudal domain in order to confirm the effect of the relationship between regional society and Rangaku knowledge.
During the latter part of the Edo era the accumulation of various systems, research, interaction, and the manufacture of tools and products related to “science and technology”, or “technical culture”, took place while transcending sectors and regions. For instance, in the Kaga feudal domain there was a group of scientists in Kanazawa comprised of Nishimura Tachu of Etchu-Johana, a star pupil of the Osakan Asada Goryu, Endo Takanori, who was influenced by Honda Toshiaki from Edo, and Kono Kyutaro who were deeply involved in the introduction of a high standard of knowledge on astronomy such as amending the hour system and the observation of comets. The activities of Endo and his colleagues included using a highly precise pendulum clock to establish their own hour system divided into 13 segments a day, and in so doing they introduced findings of astronomy (fixed time method) and physics and chemistry based on Rangaku knowledge. Related to these activities was sophisticated science and technology such as the box telescope devised by an ophthalmologist Matsuda Toei, a pupil of the Rangaku scholar Sugita Seikei. When Endo and other retainers devised a detailed map of the castle town of Kanazawa,“Kanazawa Bunken Ezu” (“Survey Map of Kanazawa”), they used the surveying techniques of Ishiguro Nobuyoshi, a scholar of ancient Japanese mathematics from Etchu-Fushiki, to carry out accurate measurements. The name of the Rangaku physician Kurokawa Masayasu appears at this time as the translator of documents that accompanied astronomical measuring instruments devised by Endo.
It is against this backdrop that the case of the precision machinery maker Ono Benkichi has a special significance among the instances found in this region. Benkichi was no more than an unknown craftsman, but his curiosity about technology that sprang from his work led him to become one of the central figures in the technical culture of the Kaga feudal domain at the end of the Edo Era. One might say that the commitment to regional Rangaku by craftsmen such as Benkichi and, conversely, the development of Rangaku in Kaga spurred on by the techniques of these craftsmen, is one of the features unique to this region.
In this way, as illustrated by the fine examples of astronomy and surveying and work on amending the time system, the “technical culture” in Kaga was a unique achievement for this region while maintaining a considerably high standard. Also, it was the mutually complementary relationship between practical scientists (technicians) and Rangaku scholars (regional Rangaku) that sustained this “technical culture” of the Kaga feudal domain.
Aspects while looking at the encouragement given to samurai, retainers and their families during the process of the widespread adoption of vaccinations, the establishment and implementation of vaccination methods in each county, and an approval of vaccinations that exceeded beyond the geographical bounds of the domain's territory.},
 pages = {179--207},
 title = {加賀の技術文化と地域蘭学（第二部　蘭学の地域的展開と交流）},
 volume = {116},
 year = {2004},
 yomi = {モトヤス, ヒロシ}
}