Study of religious pictures for peoples in medieval and early modern era with the approaching way of natural scientific and positive researching.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520727
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Cultural anthropology/Folklore
Research Institution	Gangoji Research Institute of Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, and Conservation Science
Principal Investigator	TAKAHASHI Nariaki Gangoji Research Institute of Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, and Conservation Science, 研究部, 研究員 (60261210)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	OOKUBO Osamu 財団法人元興寺文化財研究所, 研究部, 技師 (30311492) YAMADA Takashi 財団法人元興寺文化財研究所, 研究部, 研究員 (30435903)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords	熊野観心十界図 / 那智参詣曼荼羅 / 立山曼荼羅 / 近赤外線撮影 / 蛍光X線分析 / 庶民信仰 / 絵解き / iPalletNexus / 赤外線撮影
Research Abstract	Kumano-Kanshin Jyukkaizu, Nachi-Sankeimandarazu and Tateyama-Mandarazu, they are religious paintings that have been believed by peoples since medieval and early modern era. They are composed of many parts of scenes so that, at first, we connected the scenes to the meaning by characters on the Data-Base system. And secondly, we measured the whole size of them, in order to try to get classified groups of joining papers that compose whole the picture. Thirdly, with a view to try to get the evidence that informed the producing time, we detected the repaired parts with near-infra-red photography and analyzed the paints by X-ray fluorescence spectrometer.