Reception of Shanhaijing in Han, Wei, and Southern and Northern Dynasties Periods. Myths, and Politics and Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22720144
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
Research Institution	Keio University
Principal Investigator	MATSUURA Fumiko 慶應義塾大学, 商学部, 講師(非常勤) (80570952)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2011
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords	山海経 / 漢魏晋南北朝 / 前田尊経閣文庫本『天地瑞祥志』 / ペリオ文書「瑞応図」 / 五鳳 / 神話と政治 / 瑞祥と災異 / 發明・焦明・<粛+鳥/霜+鳥>・幽昌 / 『山海経』 / 瑞祥 / 異形 / 受容 / 神木大保当後漢墓 / 画像石 / 白馬朱鬣 / 陜西省 / 神話 / 發明、焦明、〓〓、幽昌 / ペリオ文書『瑞応図』 / 鳳凰 / 『天地瑞祥志』
Research Abstract	Based on both texts and images, we extensively examine how Shanhaijing, China's oldest mythological treatise on geography, affected politics and literature in the late Han, Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties Periods that underwent massive upheavals. For example, we refer to several records on auspices that are existent only in areas surrounding China, and reveal how political situations in the Han period and later transformed "four fenghuang-like birds(faming, jiaoming, sushuang and youchang)" into inauspicious birds although they used to be among five divine birds including fenghuang, which is also described in Shanhaijing.