| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In medieval Japan, many books on garments and accessories, including swords, harnesses, and carts, were written and compiled by courtiers as guides to the complicated proprieties of court life. While these works have been a rich resource for the study of clothing, research on the books themselves has not necessarily been extensive, leaving much room for investigation, starting from the search for better manuscripts, textual criticism, and the collation of quotes, to study of the authors' aims and motives. Based on this premise, this project undertook research on one of these works, Kazarisho by Minamoto Michikata (1189-1239).
With the support of the grant, I was able to examine different manuscript versions, collect related literature, and investigate the content of Kazarisho and other works. As a result, I could reconstruct the sequence of the passages likely to be closer to the original, correct transcriptions, and gain new insight into the character of these works.
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