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Reproductions and Anaylses of the Old Phonograph and Pbotograph Materials on the Ethnic Groups in Japan, Formosa, and the Philippines

Research Project

Project/Area Number 61300002
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 広領域
Research InstitutionHokkaido University

Principal Investigator

ASAKURA Toshimitsu  Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Hokkaido University, 応用電気研究所, 教授 (70001188)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KASAHARA Masaharu  faculty of Education, Yokohama National University, 教育学部, 助教授 (70130747)
TSUCHIDA Shigeru  Faculty of Letteers, University of Tokyo, 文学部, 助教授 (90014505)
MURASAKI Kyoko  Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Hokkaido University, 言語文化部, 教授 (10014515)
IFUKUBE Tohru  Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Hokkaido University, 応用電気研究所, 助教授 (70002102)
TAKAI Nobukatsu  Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Hokkaido University, 応用電気研究所, 助教授 (30001340)
上野 善道  東京大学, 文学部, 助教授 (50011375)
Project Period (FY) 1986 – 1987
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1987)
Budget Amount *help
¥10,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥5,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥5,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,900,000)
KeywordsKitasato, Takeshi / Asai, Erin / Stylus reproduction instrument / Noncontacting reproduction instruemnts using the laser-beam reflection and diffraction / wax phonograph cylinders / Ainu / アイヌ民族 / 台湾高砂族
Research Abstract

The project has twofold objects: (1) to develop new optical instruments for reproducing the sound from old wax phonograph cylinders and metalic disks, and (2) to indentify and analyze the contents recorded in those cylinders/records as well as those in old movie films and photographs.
The contacting stylus instruments were constructed to reproduce the sound from old wax phonograph cylinders and old disk records. Also, the noncontacting laser-beam reflection method and the noncontacting laser-beam diffraction method were newly developed to reproduce the sounds, respectively, from old wax cylinders and old disk records. Removal of the noise from the reproduced sound was investigated.
Materials used are as follows: (i) about 240 wax phonograph cylinders recorded by Takeshi Kitasato in early 1920's in Sakhalin, Hokkaido, Ryukyu, Formosa, and the Philippines; (ii) about 160 ebonite and metalic disks produced by Erin Asai in Formosa in 1930's, (iii) 28 movie films and a large quantity of photograph films taken by E. Asai in 1920's to 1930's mostly in Formosa.
It was revealed that out of the 240 wax cylinders, 69 are of Formosan nativetribes, 54 of the Philippines, 53 of Ryukyu and other Japanese dialects, 18 of Ainu, one Guilyak, and one of Orok. Although the cylinders have been stored in relatively good shape, it turned out that (1) even a native speaker had a great difficulty in catching the voice recorded; (2) ethnomusicological studies, however, would be possible.
More than half of the disks are recorded with songs and stories of the sincized native populations in Formosa, which have become extinct since then, and thus the materials here recorded are the only data left for them. Many films reproduced have been identified that hey are also of the now extinct sinicized native peoples and of the Li in Hainan-tao, and thus will be of great value for the ethnological studies in these areas.

Report

(2 results)
  • 1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • 1986 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All Other

All Publications (20 results)

  • [Publications] 伊福部達: 電子情報通信学会誌. 70. 407-413 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 魚住純(朝倉利光): Applied Optics.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 竹内敬人 土田滋: 言語とコミュニケーション. 129-152 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 笠原政治: 社会人類学の可能性 (石川栄吉教授退官記念論文集)弘文堂. 69-88 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 笠原政治: 沖縄文化研究(法政大学沖縄文化研究所). 14. 1-32 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 姫野翠: 台湾学術研究会誌. 2. 143-146 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 土田滋(Y.Yamada;T.Moriguchi): "Lists of Selected Words of Batanic Languages" 東京大学, 198 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Toshiaki Iwai, (Toshimitsu Asakura, Tohru Ifukube and Toshio Kawashima): "Reproduction of sound from old wax phonograph cylinders using the laser-beam reflection method" Applied Optics. 25. 597-603 (1986)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tohru Ifukube: "Processing of sound signals: Enhancement of speech" Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. 70. 407-413 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Shigeru Tsuchida: "When a language dies out" Language and Communication. 129-152 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] D. Midori Hemeno: "The materials of Taiwanese aborigines in "Kitasato" wax phonograph cylinders" Journal of Academic Research for Taiwan. 2. 143-146 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masaharu Kasahara: "Social construction of historical knowledge: an analysis of the Rukai genealogical traditions" New Directions of Social Anthropology 1: Societies in History (edited by K. Sudo et al.). 1. 66-68 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Shigeru Tsuchida, (Y. Yamada and T. Moriguch): Lists of Selected Words of Batanic Languages. Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, 198pp (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 岩井俊昭,朝倉利光,伊福部達,川嶋稔夫: 25. 597-603 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 朝倉利光: 土と基礎(土質工学会誌). 34-10. 3-8 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 土田滋 I.Dyen: FOCAL II:Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.Pacific Linguistics C-94. 23-31 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 上野善道: 東京大学言語学論集'86. 15-44 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 姫野翠: 1. 87-100 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 笠原政治: 横浜国立大学人文紀要. 32. 51-67 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 土田滋: "Comparative Word Lists of the Batanic Languages" 東京大学文学部言語学科, 220 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1987-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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