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A Study of Okinawa People's Sense of Cultural Incongruity toward Japan Proper

Research Project

Project/Area Number 04301037
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
Research InstitutionYokohama National University

Principal Investigator

KASAHARA Masaharu  Yokohama National University Faculty of Education, Associate professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (70130747)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) ISHIKAWA Masanobu  Meiji University, School of Political Science and Economics, Senior lecturer, 政治経済学部, 専任講師 (30202972)
KIYAMA Tomohiko  Utsunomiya Bunsei Junior College Senior lecturer, 専任講師 (60186343)
OGOSHI Kohei  Kanto Gakuin Women's Junior College, Associate professor, 助教授 (80194116)
SAKAI Masako  Shonan Kokusai Women's Junior College Associate professor, 助教授 (00092627)
植野 弘子  茨城大学, 教養部, 助教授 (40183016)
Project Period (FY) 1992 – 1993
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥3,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000)
KeywordsOkinawan Studies / Life-Experiences in Japan Proper / Life-History / Emigration / Cultural Gap / Sense of Incongruity / 本土観 / ライフヒストリー / 沖縄人意識 / 移民 / 本土留学
Research Abstract

This co-operative research has been carried out to clarify the cultural gap between Okinawa and Japan proper, or in other words, Okinawan people's sense of cultural incongruity toward Japan proper, by inquiring into various aspects of their life-experiences in Tokyo Osaka, and other districts of Japan proper. The results of research are as follows. Sakai described and analyzed some songs of spinners in Tokunoshima Island. Before the World War II many young women of Okinawa and Amami, including Tokunoshima, worked away form home as the cotton-mill girls in Osaka and carried those songs back home. They are now incorporated into the island's musical performances as a peculiar genre and often found even in the death rituals performed by the shamanistic practitioners. Ogoshi reported the fact that some of the central figures in the activities of revitalizing Okinawan local communities, or shima-okoshi, were the recent "U-turn" people from Japan proper and Ishikawa tried to grasp, by analyzing four life-hitorical documents he collected, a meaning of the rite of passage in people's temporary life-experiences in Japan proper. In contrast to these studies, Kiyama and Kasahara pursued the people's emigration and their life-experiences in Taiwan and Micronesia before the World War II.Kiyama collected many life-historical data concerning Okinawan emigrants to Micronesia and classified them into three types. Kasahara gave an outline about the fisherman's experiences of sailing out fishing in the South Seas and the Okinawan people's close relation to Taiwan in the colonial period. From the first this co-operative research had an aim at introducing the viewpoints of modern Okinawan history into anthropological research. And it can be said that such an aim has been considerably achieved through this two-year's study.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1993 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1992 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All Other

All Publications (13 results)

  • [Publications] 酒井 正子: "徳之島の葬歌-奄美の民俗音楽文化から-" 口承文芸研究. 16. 49-65 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 酒井 正子: "歌と儀礼-沖永良部島の33年忌調査報告-" 湘南国際女子短期大学紀要. 1. 305-320 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 酒井 正子: "歌とシマ空間-徳之島・目手久集落における音楽民族誌の試み-" 南日本文化. 26. 51-99 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 大越 公平: "石垣島・竹富島に見る祭司選定の抽籖制" 短大論叢(関東学院女子短期大学). 90. 1-11 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SAKAI,Masako: "Funeral Laments of Tokunoshima Island, Amami" Kosho-Bungei Kenkyu(Studies in Folk Narrative). No.16. 49-65 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SAKAI,Masako: "Singing and Ritual : Report on 33rd Memorial Ceremony of Okinoerabu Island" Bulletin of Shonan Kokusai Women's College. No.1. 305-320 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SAKAI,Masako: "Songs and Cosmological concepts of the Village in Tokunoshima Island" Minami Nihon Bunka. No.26. 51-99 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] OGOSHI,Kohei: "Drawing Lots as a Method of Selecting Priest in Ishigaki, Taketomi, Okinawa" Journal of Kanto Gakuin Women's Junior College. No.90. 1-11 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 酒井正子: "徳之島の葬歌-庵美の民俗音楽文化から-" 口承文芸研究. 16. 49-65 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 酒井正子: "歌と儀礼-沖永良部島の33年忌調査報告-" 湘南国際女子短期大学紀要. 1. 305-320 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 酒井正子: "歌とシマ空間-徳之島・目手久集落における音楽民族誌の試み-" 南日本文化. 26. 51-99 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 大越公平: "石垣島・竹富島に見る祭司選定の抽籖制" 短大論叢(関東学院女子短期大学). 90. 1-11 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 石川雅信: "庵美の家族と〈一重一瓶〉" 社会人類学からみた日本(河出書房新社). 142-154 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report

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