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Early Modern Latin Literature on Japan - A Study on its Context of Production and Unedited Manuscripts

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K00503
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02040:European literature-related
Research InstitutionOtsuma Women's University

Principal Investigator

Watanabe Akihiko  大妻女子大学, 比較文化学部, 教授 (60612025)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords近世ラテン語文学 / イエズス会劇 / キリシタン文化学 / 近世ラテン語 / キリシタン研究 / イエズス会演劇 / 西洋古典学 / キリシタン / ラテン語 / 近世ヨーロッパ / 日本
Outline of Research at the Start

本研究は日本を扱った近世ラテン語文学作品のうち、未出版手稿で現存するもの数点をとりあげ、(1)作品の日本情報がどのように記録され、ヨーロッパに伝達されたのか、(2)作品が制作された環境においてその情報がどのように受容、選択、加工、再発信されたのかを包括的に明らかにする。内容が未知である日本関係の近世ヨーロッパのラテン語一次史料を発掘し、その生成の文脈をたどることは、西洋古典学やキリシタン文化学のみならず比較文学、文化史、思想史、海外交流史等他分野にも新たな研究の可能性をもたらすことが期待される。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The major outcome of this research project was the publication of the book Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Two 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and Commentary. In this book, the PI gave a philologically accurate edition of two Latin plays on Japanese subjects, one performed in Koblenz in 1625 and the other produced in Munich in 1665. The edition contains not only the original Latin texts but and English translation as well as introduction and commentary also in English. In the introduction and commentary, the PI sketched the historical, political, social as well as educational and cultural contexts in which the plays were produced. There is good reason to hope that the edition will be a precursor to more studies not only on drama but Latin works in other genres on Japanese subjects, a great number of which remain to be investigated. The PI also published several articles and gave academic presentations during the research period.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究により、17~18世紀に欧州を中心として当時の教養語であったラテン語で作成された文献群の中で日本宣教がどのように受容され、再拡散されていったのか、学会未見の一時文献2点を中心として詳細に検証することができた。近世ラテン語文学はいわゆる異教古典の伝統を色濃く引き継ぎながらも、キリスト教化した西欧を中心に作成され読み継がれていった多様性に満ちた伝統である。この近年再度注目をあびている伝統の中に、古代地中海からも西欧からも遠く離れた日本の情報がどのように受容されたのかを調査することは今後もヨーロッパの多様性および日本との歴史的繋がりを理解するため重要であると考えられる。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] De Iaponibus, qui inde a saeculo XVI usque ad XXI textus Latinos composuerint2022

    • Author(s)
      A. Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Vox Latina

      Volume: 58 Pages: 58-66

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The Japanese Senex Iratus: The Munich Victor Play2022

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, Akihiko
    • Journal Title

      Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts

      Volume: 0 Pages: 320-331

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 羅話辞典420年の歴史(邦題)2021

    • Author(s)
      渡邉 顕彦
    • Journal Title

      Foreign Languages Research/外語研究

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Catholicism, Early Modern Japan, and the Greco-Roman Classics2020

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, Akihiko
    • Journal Title

      Itineraria

      Volume: 19 Pages: 197-213

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] De Iaponia et litteris Neo-Latinis2023

    • Author(s)
      Akihiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Praelectiones in Vivario Novo habitae
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Contamination or Cross-Pollination? The Attack of the Flying Brahmins in 1620s Koblenz2022

    • Author(s)
      Antonia Karaisl and Akihiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] De Iaponibus qui inde a saeculo XVI usque ad XXI textus Latinos composuerint2021

    • Author(s)
      Akihiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Latinitas et doctrinarum orbis
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The Staging of Japanese Martyrs in 17th-Century Koblenz and Munich: Contact-Tracing in Early Modern Global Knowledge Circulation2021

    • Author(s)
      Akihiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 近世ラテン語、古典受容と16~17世紀の日本人2019

    • Author(s)
      渡邉顕彦
    • Organizer
      日本における西洋古典受容
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 西洋古典2019

    • Author(s)
      渡邉顕彦
    • Organizer
      21世紀の人文知とは――世界の古典学から考える
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Iam fraus liquescit: The Munich Victor Play and Jesuits as Purveyors of Information on Early Modern Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Akihiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      ICAS 11
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Two 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and Commentary2023

    • Author(s)
      Akihiko Watanabe
    • Total Pages
      257
    • Publisher
      Bloomsbury
    • ISBN
      9781350217201
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Japan on the Jesuit stage : transmissions, receptions, and regional contexts2022

    • Author(s)
      Haruka Oba, Akihiko Watanabe, Florian Schaffenrath
    • Total Pages
      342
    • Publisher
      Brill
    • ISBN
      9789004436183
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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