1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN NORTHERN ASIA THROUGH HISTORICAL MATERIALS PRESERVED IN OUU (NORTHEAST OF JAPAN)

Research Project

Project/Area Number	09610325
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese history
Research Institution	TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	IRUMADA Nobuo THE CENTER FOR NORTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, PROFESSOR, 東北アジア研究センター, 教授 (40004048)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SASAKI Tooru THE CENTER FOR NORTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, 東北アジア研究センター, 助教授 (80292308) HIRAKAWA Arata THE CENTER FOR NORTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, PROFESSOR, 東北アジア研究センター, 教授 (90142900) YOSHIDA Tadashi THE CENTER FOR NORTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, PROFESSOR, 東北アジア研究センター, 教授 (60004058) NANAMI Masato JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE, FELLOW, 特別研究員 EMOR Susumu TOHOKUGAKUIN UNIVERSITY, PROFESSOR, 文学部, 教授 (10145972)
Project Period (FY)	1997 – 1999
Keywords	Ezochi (蝦夷地) / Magistrate of Hakodate (函館奉行) / Kano Docment (狩野文庫) / Sugiura Hyogonokami Kakitame (杉浦兵庫頭書留) / Matsumae Han(松前藩) / Ezogashima Yawaki(狄島夜話記) / Rezanov / Laksman
Research Abstract	People, goods and information have been exchanged among various regions in Northern Asia, including Siberia, Amurland, Primorje, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and what is now known as Hokkaido and the Tohoku district of Japan since the Jomon era. Most historical materials remained untouched until the end of the Cold War. This collaboration intends to form a basis by which we can grasp the history of cultural exchange in Northern Asia in its totality. We attempt this by establishing the location of these materials, then classifying and analyzing the m. As a first step toward this, we investigated the literature housed in various archives in Tohoku district, beginning with the Tohoku University Library. We have already rediscovered such valuable historical materials as Sugiura Hyogonokami Kakitome (documents preserved by a magistrate of Hakodate with him memoranda), and Ezogashime Yawaki (an account of a journey to Ezogashima/Hokkaido, recounted to and written down by a priest of Matsushima Zuigangi Temple).