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1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

MODERN FOLKLORE STUDIES FOR FOLKLORISM IN THE PROCESS OF REVIVAL AND TRANSPLANTATION OF FESTIVAL EVENTS,AND INVENTION OF LOCAL CULTURES

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08610323
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
Research InstitutionKWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

YAGI Yasuyuki  KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, PROFESSOR, 文学部, 教授 (80122224)

Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1997
Keywordsfolklorism / modern folklore studies / folk culture / local identity / folk performing arts / local culture / local event / festival
Research Abstract

This research project was to analyze the process in which many festival events and folk performing arts are transformed, transplanted or invented, and aquire meanings, and generate people's identity in local context in modern Japan. First, the investigator redefined the idea of folklorism, developed by the German Volkskunde in early 1960s, and, secondly, tried to apply it to the selected festival events and folk performing arts. Those events and arts are the Fukue Festival in Fukue City, Goto islands, Nagasaki Prefecture, the Nio Dragon Festival in Nio Cho in Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku Island, the local drum troupes in Hiroshima and Kagawa Prefectures, the local exposition held in Gifu Prefecture in 1988, and the Shirotori Bon Dance in Shirotori Cho, Gifu Prefecture. The investigator conducted the field research for each of those festival events and folk performing arts. The resuls are as follows. 1. After transplanting the Aomori Nebuta lantem float into the Fukue Festival scene as main program, the festival captured more popularity than before. 2. The Nio Dragon was originally a small straw dragon made by peasant people praying it for stopping the drought, and now it plays a principal role in the festival event organized by the local town office. 3. The local drum troupes are still in vogue in all parts of Japan. This boom is a process of inventing tradition among rural people through the folk performing arts. 4. The Local Exposition in Gifu was an opportunity when many festivals and performing arts were revaluated, reorganized and reproduced as symbols representing local idylic value. 5. The Shirotori Bon Dance was once an active form of recreation among the folk. Today, it is gradually becoming a tourism resource of local area.

  • Research Products

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 八木 康幸: "郷土芸能としての和太鼓" たいころじい. 15号. 17-25 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 八木 康幸: "浮田典良編『地域文化を生きる』 雨乞い竜の再生" 大明堂, 125-144 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 八木 康幸: "宮田登編『現代民俗学の視点』(第3巻民俗の思想) 祭りと踊りの地域文化-地方博覧会とフォークロリズム-(印刷中)" 朝倉書店, (1998)

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  • [Publications] YAGI,Yasuyuki: "The Japanese Drum as Folk Performing Arts in Home Town" Taikology. No. 15. 17-25 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Yagi, Yasuyuki: Rivival of the Dragon Praying for Rain. UKITA, Tsuneyoshi, ed., Living a Local Culture, Taimei-Do, 125-144 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Yagi, Yasuyuki: Local Cultures Represented through Festivals and Dances. MIYATA,Noboru, ed., Ideology of Folklore, Asakura-Shoten(in press),

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Published: 1999-03-16  

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