This thesis is part of comprehensive survey of discourses of J. A. Comenius in prewar Japan. When national education system, one of the main agents of the formation of nation state, was established in mid 19th-century Japan, Czech thinker in the 17th century, Comenius was introduced as a precursor of modern education. More detailed examination of the process is expected for the deeper understanding of the acceptance of Western education in Japan. 
Through examining the books and magazines mainly concerning education published up to 1945, the author discovered more than 20 articles about Comenius, which have not been mentioned in the previous survey. In this series of theses, the author lists them up and reconsider the process in which the interpretation of Comenius changed and diversified. This thesis pays special attention to the article entitled as "Komeniusu-shi Ryakuden (A Brief Biography of Mr. Comenius)", appeared in Chiba Kyoikukai Zassi (The Journal of Chiba Education Society) in 1882.