| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The main thrust of this research in 1995 was to pinpoint the locations of the corpus of poet and Saiki-domain samurai Nakajima Shigyoku, and to begin surveying and reproducing his body of work. I was able to survey and to a large extent reproduce his manuscripts in the possession of the Saiki Municipal Education Committee, as well as those in the library of Kyushu University, The National Diet Library and other institutions in Tokyo. Shigyoku spent his early twenties studying at the official Shoheiko Academy in Edo ; this prompted me to concentrate on gathering evidence of his experience there. Concerning the Academy specifically, I copied and began the deciphering of thirty-five volumes of that institution's faculty diaries, now in the possession of the Tsukuba University Library. Shigyoku was promoted to Poetry Tutor at the Academy following a bloody homocide there of one student by another. I investigate this series of events in order to flesh out the cultural climate of Shoheiko in the 1820's (see "Murder in the Northen Dormitory of Shoheiko Academy, 1823", in Edo bungaku, v.14). I also redacted and provided a detrled commentary on nine letters by scholars sent to Shigyoku ("The Radius of Nakajima Shigyoku", in Kaitoku, v.64).
In 1996 I basically continued the tasks laid out in the year previous. Finishing the redactions of Shigyoku's oeuvre, I spread out toward the activities and writings of the students near and contemporary to him. This has led me to start compiling of a chronology of the Shoheiko Academy in the 1820's. Throughout the year I carried out several surveys, and while continuing to read in the massive body of Saiki domain documents, I contemplated the many points of contact between these official records and the literary pursuits of Nakajima Shigyoku.
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