1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Comparative Study on the Image of a Leader in the Traditional Societies in East Asia
| Project/Area Number |
02451050
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Asian history
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| Research Institution | TOHOKU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIDA Tadashi Research Institute, for Japanese Culture Professor, 文学部, 教授 (60004058)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMADA Katsuyoshi Coll.Gen.Education Professor, 教養部, 教授 (20002553)
SUZUKI Norio Fac.Arts & Letters Professor, 文学部, 教授 (30086087)
MURAKAMI Tetsumi Fac.Arts & Letters Professor, 文学部, 教授 (70005734)
NAKAJIMA Ryuzo Fac.Arts & Letters Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10004061)
YASUDA Jiro Fac.Arts & Letters Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90036666)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1990 – 1992
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| Keywords | East Asia / image of a leader / bo / goketsu |
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| Research Abstract |
Although China, Korea and Japan have been often summed up as sphere of Confucianism, their images of a leader have varied from a region to another and changed through ages.
(1) In China, broadly speaking, the image of a leader transformed from a goketsu type to a type of literati who possessed cultural acquirements, in accordance to socio-political changes as well as to the changes in thought. In response to such changes, images of a specific leader have been repeatedly constructed.
(2) Contempt against Japan as barbarian which had been formd since the nineth century in Bokkai reflects their search for their own image of a leader as well as the rise of nationalism among its leaders.
(3) In good contrast to China and Korea, a strong tendency to place a stress on authority acquired by military power can be observed in Japanese idea of a leader, although, since the emergence of samurai, Japan have looked for goketsu-type as well as literati-type above.
(4) The idea of a leader has undoubtedly an aspect of fiction, but not a few leaders actually have sought for and tried to play an ideal image of a leader, however fictitious it may have been.
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Research Products
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