2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Comprehensive and Inter-disciplinal study on Wandering to study and Pilgrimages around Buddhist temples and Shinto-Shrines in Medieval Japan

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Project Area	Religious Movements and Communication Medium/Worldview/Social Integration: A Synthetic Approach of Historical Research
Project/Area Number	20H05722
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Review Section	Transformative Research Areas, Section (I)
Research Institution	Shujitsu University
Principal Investigator	KARIKOME Hitoshi 就実大学, 人文科学部, 教授 (60334017)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	佐々木守俊清泉女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (00713885) 服部光真公益財団法人元興寺文化財研究所, 研究部, 研究員 (00746498) 守田逸人香川大学, 教育学部, 教授 (10434250) 川崎剛志就実大学, 人文科学部, 教授 (70281524) 小林郁皇學館大学, 研究開発推進センター, 助教 (90779654)
Project Period (FY)	2020-10-02 – 2023-03-31
Keywords	中世寺院 / 文献史学 / 文学 / 美術史 / 遊歴 / 巡礼 / 参詣
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Research was carried out on the history of pilgrimage, pilgrimage and homage to local temples and shrines in medieval Japan, with researchers in the fields of historical documents , literature and art history as contributors. Each member carried out research on the subject, while study groups were held online from time to time. Three plenary sessions were held under the management of the general group, the last of which was an international research meeting. As well as deepening understanding of the subject, exchanges with researchers of Western history were promoted, and it was confirmed that Western and Japanese medieval societies had many points in common in terms of the cult of universal religion and monasticism.
Free Research Field	日本中世史
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	日本中世の地域寺社をめぐる遊歴・参詣・巡礼について、伊勢参詣・修験道・四国遍路の三点について史料を蓄積し、また活字化することができた。地域寺社の静態についても考察を深めることができ、特にその民衆救済の多様性を確認することができた。さらに総括班のもとで、観想修道会班・托鉢修道会班・イエズス会班とも研究交流を重ねた。その結果、日本中世社会が西洋のそれと宗教の面において多くの共通点をもつこと、しかし両者に相互の影響関係はなく、その共通性は一種の平行進化のようなものであり、社会そのものが同じような発展段階に達していたことの現れであることも確認することができた。