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Matsuyama Shinonome College

higher education institution in Ehime Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6788232 ↗
Source-derived summary

Matsuyama Shinonome College (松山東雲女子大学, Matsuyama shinonome joshi daigaku) is a private women's college in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1886, and it was chartered as a university in 1992.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Matsuyama Shinonome College” is higher education institution in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Matsuyama, Shinonome and College, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886-01-01. For this dossier, Matsuyama, Shinonome and College is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “higher education institution in Ehime Prefecture, Japan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6788232. VIAF identifies the subject as 252997759. Authority coordinates are 33.832, 132.796. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1886 and 1992.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
Verify next

Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Matsuyama Shinonome College”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Matsuyama Shinonome College primary sources, Matsuyama Shinonome College archive and Matsuyama research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Matsuyama Shinonome College”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Matsuyama Shinonome College” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.