| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this research, I studied Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Vol. 1 & 2 and its author Frederick William Henry Myers (1843-1901). Kumagusu Minakata (1867-1941), an influential Japanese folklorist and naturalist, was strongly influenced by this book. The main contents and results of the research are as follows.
First, I investigated the member lists of the Society for Psychical Research at the Cambridge University Library. Thereby, I was able to discover the first Japanese member of the Society, and identify the house where Myers resided. This house was the important place where Myers conducted a lot of psychical experiments. Next, I read carefully the aforementioned book and identified some sections which Minakata referred to or quoted in his diaries or articles and translated them into Japanese. Thereby, I revealed that most of Minakata’s psychological statements about his dreams and supernormal phenomena were influenced by this book.
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