樋口 雄彦（Takehiko Higuchi）- 日本近代史研究者

樋口 雄彦（ひぐち たけひこ、1961年–）は、明治期の社会・文化と旧幕臣の動向を研究する日本近代史研究者。静岡県熱海市生まれ。1984年に静岡大学人文学部人文学科を卒業し、沼津市明治史料館の学芸員となった。同館の主任学芸員を経て、2001年に国立歴史民俗博物館へ移り、2003年から総合研究大学院大学でも研究・教育に従事した。2007年に大阪大学で博士（文学）を取得し、2011年に両機関の教授となった。幕府の崩壊後、旧幕臣たちが新たな社会にどのように関わったのかを、教育、軍事、思想、信仰などの側面から調べてきた。『旧幕臣の明治維新――沼津兵学校とその群像』では、静岡藩が設けた沼津兵学校と人材育成を通じ、維新の敗者とされた人々が近代社会で活動の場を見いだす過程を描いた。『沼津兵学校の研究』では、その関心を学校の成立・展開と教育内容の検証へ掘り下げ、教科書や生徒のノート、地域社会や他藩・新政府との関係から、軍事教育にとどまらない学校の実態を考察した。2023年の『明治の旧幕臣とその信仰』では、旧幕臣によるキリスト教、淘宮術、性理学などの受容に焦点を移した。宗教活動に携わった人々や、公的な職務とは別の思想・信仰を持った人物を横断的に取り上げ、身分制が解体される時代の精神的な変化と文化の変革を論じた。

Takehiko Higuchi (born 1961) is a historian of modern Japan whose research examines society and culture in the Meiji period and the lives of former Tokugawa retainers. Born in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, he graduated from Shizuoka University’s Faculty of Humanities in 1984 and became a curator at the Numazu City Meiji Historical Archives. After serving as its senior curator, he joined the National Museum of Japanese History in 2001 and began teaching concurrently at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in 2003. He earned a doctorate in literature from Osaka University in 2007 and became a professor at both institutions in 2011. His work investigates former shogunal retainers’ participation in the new society through education, military affairs, thought, and religion. In “Kyu Bakushin no Meiji Ishin: Numazu Heigakko to Sono Gunzo,” he traced how people on the losing side of the Restoration found roles in modern society, focusing on the military school established by Shizuoka Domain and its cultivation of personnel. “Numazu Heigakko no Kenkyu” examined the school’s formation, development, and teaching in greater depth. Textbooks, students’ notebooks, and its relationships with local communities, other domains, and the new government revealed an institution whose activities extended beyond military training. In “Meiji no Kyu Bakushin to Sono Shinko” (2023), he studied former retainers’ engagement with Christianity, Tokyujutsu, Seirigaku, and other beliefs. Bringing together religious practitioners and people whose private convictions differed from their public duties, he explored changes in thought and culture during the dismantling of the status system.