A general study on formation and metamorphosis of war chronicles

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22820012
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Japanese literature
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	HARADA Atsushi 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 助教 (90584657)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2011
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,016,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,320,000、Indirect Cost: ¥696,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,443,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,110,000、Indirect Cost: ¥333,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,573,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,210,000、Indirect Cost: ¥363,000)
Keywords	軍記物語 / 中世文学 / 平家物語 / 保元物語 / 平治物語 / 承久記
Research Abstract	War chronicles is a fluid work, which has always changed its form. In this study, I analyzed mainly "Heike Monogatari" examining that how these works had been formed and immense numbers of various manuscripts had been born. The main research result is that I obtained basic point of view to express the fluid of various manuscripts as a history of literature by clarifying the relationships between various manuscripts and considering what kind of differences in literary method exists beyond background of various manuscripts.