| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I could collect almost all works and materials of Japanese writing in English during the Meiji, Taisho, and the early Showa periods through field work at the universities in the US, toward the comprehensive study of it. Such works are over 150, much more than I expected at the beginning. Through this study I could discover the fact that most of them were written by Buddhist scholars or monks, and they were motivated by their desire for modernizing Japanese Buddhism which was thought to be outdated by the Meiji government and misunderstood by western countries. This passion for the Buddhist reform movement caused them to write for the readers in English speaking countries. This discovery gives me the nest research theme.
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