| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The diary which the woman wrote in the Edo age hardly exists now. I collected such diaries and deciphered them. As a result, I clarified concrete life of then woman.
Misu Ueda (1783-1857) was born as doctor's daughter and she married the lower class samurai. She began to write the diary in seventy years of age and kept writing for five years until dying. This diary is remaining. Her daily life is described in this diary. Moreover, her experiences and her impressions to the events are expressed by the haiku and the Japanese poem. This diary is valuable historical materials as the woman diary at the early modern age.
She had a lot of friends. She made the acquaintance of them through the haiku that is her hobby. Those friends were in the range from Sendai and Niigata to Tanegashima. She and her friends were exchanging the letters daily and in those letters they were exchanging information.
In daily life, she taught reading and writing to children in the vicinity, read, made the haiku, and enjoyed herself over a delicious cooking and sake at times. The retirement life of her living free from worldly cares was clarified by the decipherment of her diary. In addition, because of her knowledge, information and her adequate judgment based on them, she played important roles and was held in high esteem in various groups (family, relative and regional society) to which she belongs.
Jokunsho(女訓書) which teaches the way of life of the women in the Edo age demanded endurance and submission of the women. However, Misu's way of being is different from the woman image drawn from Jokunsho(女訓書).
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