| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Japanese folklorist Yanagita Kunio argued that under the widespread impacts of rice farming, Buddhism, and the Yamato Imperial Government, there ought to have been some indigenous people who hid themselves deep in the mountains. These yamahito people were created in the “isolated-island suffering” of the Pacific Archipelagoes (including the Japanese chain of islands), where the seas forcibly prevent people from getting out. The yamahito people, Yanagita conjectured, had been still alive. Actually they could not be found out, but we can find them in contemporary Japanese literary and cultural texts, even in the forms of non-human entities such as gods, monsters, spirits, animals, and plants, as well as those of genetic human minds and souls. I delved into novels by Mori Ogai, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Miyazawa Kenji, Sakaguchi Ango, Nakajima Atsushi, Niimi Nankichi, and Endo Shusaku; manga by Mizuki Shigeru and Tezuka Osamu; and anime by Masaoka Kenzo and Miyazaki Hayao.
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