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"Dance" and "Music" as the motifs that produced the image of the Amitabha's Pure Land--Reproduction of the Chinese sound and the nomadic sound painted the ritual space--

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13571003
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section海外学術
Research Field 美学(含芸術諸学)
Research InstitutionIndependent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties

Principal Investigator

KATSUKI Gen'ichiro  National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Department of Fine Art, Senior Researcher, 美術部, 主任研究員 (50249918)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MIYASHITA Saeko  The Ancient Orient Museum, Researcher, 研究員 (80132760)
TAKAKUWA Izumi  National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Department of Performing Arts, Music/Dance Section, Head, 東京文化財研究所・芸能部・音楽舞踊研究室, 室長 (60249919)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥13,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥4,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥5,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000)
Keywordsmusical iconography / mural painting of Dunhuang / Visual aspect of Amitabha's Pure Land / the Music and Dance Section / figure-headed bird / winged figure / Palmyra / musical instruments / 敦煙壁画
Research Abstract

The landscape of the Pure Land in which Amitabha preaches had been represented in the visual aspects of Amitabha's Pure Land. These were created in China, in the middle of 6^<th> century, and were extend to the eastern and central Asia. In those days, the Chinese people used many motifs to produce the image of Amitabha's Pure Land. Focusing on the image of Amitabha's Pure land from 6^<th> to 10^<th> centuries, we clarified they mixed the different motifs that originated either in China or in the foreign countries, especially in the west. Every investigator researched as follows.
KATSUKI analyzed the musical iconography and jivajiva (double figure-headed bird in Buddhism) the Chinese people represented in the visual aspects of Amitabh's Pure Land, in the mural painting of Dunhuang. And KATSUKI researched the winged figures in the central and east-southern Asia, such as Gandharva, Kinara, and Garuda that originated in India.
MIYASHITA analyzed, the musical iconography and winged figures in the western Asia, though the investigation of unearthed objects, to search the roots of Pure Land to the west.
TAKAKUWA analyzed the different characteristics that originated either in China or in the foreign countries, through the investigation of musical iconography and musical instruments in the music historical methods.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (18 results)

All Other

All Publications (18 results)

  • [Publications] 宮下佐江子: "パルミラ東南墓域C号墓出土の有翼天使像について"古代オリエント博物館紀要. 21. 65-74 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎: "中国における共命鳥のイメージの諸相"芸術学の視座 -眞保亨先生古希記念論文集. 38-63 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎: "敦煌壁画にみる舞と楽のイメージ -美術史研究者の立場からの音楽図像学-"東京文化財研究所 第25回文化財の保存に関する国際研究集会報告書「日本の楽器 -新しい楽器学に向けて-」. 94-103 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎: "五代以降の中国における共命鳥の概念の形成"平成13年度-平成16年度科学研究費補助金基盤研究(B)(2)研究成果報告書「極楽のイメージを演出するモチーフとしての「舞」と「楽」 -儀礼空間に描かれた中国的音響と胡族的音響-」. 1-26 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 宮下佐江子: "古代オリエント博物館収蔵パルティア時代のテラコッタ製楽人像について"平成13年度-平成16年度科学研究費補助金基盤研究(B)(2)研究成果報告書「極楽のイメージを演出するモチーフとしての「舞」と「楽」 -儀礼空間に描かれた中国的音響と胡族的音響-」. 27-36 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎, 宮下佐江子, 管澤茂: "人面鳥と有翼人のイメージにみる東西文化の交流"ソフトマシン. 352 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] MIYASHITA Saeko: "The Winged Goddesses Unearthed from Tomb C Palmyra"BULLTIN OF THE ANCIENT ORIENT MUSEUM. vol.21. 65-74 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATSUKI Gen'ichiro: "The Aspects of the Image of Chinese Jivajiva"Perspective of the Science of Art. 38-63 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATSUKI Gen'ichiro: "Image of "Dance" and "Music" in the Mural Painting of Dunhuang : An Art Historian's View of Musical Iconography"Japanese Musical Instruments : Toward a New Organology. 94-103 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATSUKI Gen'ichiro: "Formation of the Concept of Jivajiva in China after the Five Dynasties""Dance" and "Music" as the motifs that produced the image of the Amitabha's Pure Land--Reproduction of the Chinese sound and the nomadic sound painted the ritual space--. 1-26 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] MIYASHITA Saeko: "Musicians of Parthian Terra Cottas in the Ancient Orient Museum""Dance" and 'Music" as the motifs that produced the image of the Amitabha's Pure Land--Reproduction of the Chinese sound and the nomadic sound painted the ritual space--. 27-36 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATSUKI Gen'ichiro, MIYASHJTA Saeko, SUGASAWA Shigeru: "The Cultural Exchange between the East and the West, through the Analysis of the Images of Figure-Headed Bird and Winged Figure"Co ltd. Softmachine. 352 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎: "五代以降の中国で形成された共命鳥の概念と図像"科学研究費補助金報告書. 1-26 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 宮下佐江子: "パルティア時代の女性楽人テラコッタ像について"科学研究費補助金報告書. 27-36 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎: "中国における共命鳥のイメージの諸相"芸術学の視座-眞保亨先生古希記念論文集-. 38-63 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎: "敦煌壁画にみる舞と楽のイメージ-美術史研究者の立場からの音楽図像学-"東京文化財研究所 第25回文化財の保存に関する国際研究集会報、告書「日本の楽器-新しい楽器学に向けて-」. 94-103 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 勝木言一郎, 宮下佐江子, 菅澤茂: "人面鳥と有翼人のイメージにみる東西文化の交流"ソフトマシン. 352 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 宮下佐江子: "パルミラ東南墓域C号墓出土の有翼天使像について"古代オリエント博物館紀要. 21. 65-74 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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