| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The research theme for the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research is to locate the records of lectures delivered by Confucianists of the eastern part of Japan and to collect records owned by the libraries in various districts in Japan. These invaluable research materials will enable us to learn the eastern dialects in the Edo Era.
The school of Ansai Yamazaki had a tradition of recording Confucian lectures by writing them down and using these records as teaching materials for succeeeding students. Ansai gave his lectures in plain words mixing dialects. The disciples of Ansai recorded his lectures realistically, therefore we can guess how he spoke. To record the masters, lectures as they were given had become a tradition of the Ansai School.
Therefore, it was quite natural that, if the lecturers were born and bred in rural areas, their lectures were delivered in their own native dialects. As the records of those provincial Confucians retain their original dialects, the existence of these records are very important research materials to learn about the dialects in the Edo Era.
We have learned by this research thar there are in the eastern part of Japan fairly many records of lectures in dialects. The record of Yosai Watanabe in Shibata dialect has been found and the records of lectures by Usai Inaba and his son, Mokusai Inaba, given in Edo dialects exist. It is also presumed that the lecture records of Gosai Noda and Nobuyuki Koda might retain the dialect of Northern Kanto district. It can be said that, by studying the records of Ansai School Confucian scholars, we will be able to develop a systematic understanding of Edo Era dialects.
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