| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The research project "Comparative Studies on Orientalism and B. H. Chamberlain' s Things Japanese" was carried out at Kobe University with Grand Aid for Scientific Research (C) (2) (2004-2006). The main purpose of the project is the text criticism of Chamberlain' s Things Japanese. It reveals how his concept of things Japanese shapes and changes from the first edition (1890) to the final edition(1939). The study also shows his orientalism is closely related not only to the orientalism of his contemporary Japanolgists in Japan such as Ernest Mason Satow, but also to the Western orientalism in general. The research report (Kagakukenkyuhojyokinn Seika Houkokusyo) compares six editions of four major articles of Things Japanese such as "INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER," "MISSIONS," "RELIGION," and "TREATIES," and shows the changes (additions and omissions) made by Chamberlain. The variants of some other articles will appear later on my website(http://hwpbc. gate01. com/mtoda/mtoda/). My paper (Masaru Toda "On B. H. Chamberlain' s Things Japanese, Kindai, 97, 21-40, 2006) deals with the variant readings of the article "TREATIES," and illustrates how his colonialism was formed. My paper on Lafcadio Hearn in Sukehiro Hirakawa' s Lafcadio Hearn in International Perspective (Global Books Ltd., Kent, U.K., 2007) shows another case of orientalism in interpreting things Japanese, particularly the native religion Shinto.
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