2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Basic Research on the Domination over its Glebe and the Social Structure of a Mammoth Temple in Early Modern Japan
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10610320
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese history
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIDA Yuriko (鈴木 ゆり子) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Language, Assistant Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (50196888)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | Temple / Social Standing / the Temple of Hieizan-Enryakuji / Early Modern Japan / "Kunin", a Bonze living like a Layman / Monzen-machi, Religious City / Glebe / "Taitou-nin", a Person Privileged to Wear a Sword |
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| Research Abstract |
This project is the research on social structure of a religious city Sakamoto where Enryaku-ji Temple is located and how Enryaku-ji Temple dominated the residents of Sakamoto. I visited the Eizan-Bunko several times to examine the old documents to make hand or photo copies. I also visited the descendants of the officers, "Toshiyori, in Kami-Sakamoto, Kazuma NAGATA, Syunichi KAWASE, Syouichi MATSUSHIMA, and Eiji OKAMOTO to investigate the documents they owned. Each family has many important old documents, but they weren't arranged in order. So I arranged them with the help of several investigators and students. As the result of this research project, I could make the lists of these old documents.
The results of investigation of Sakamoto are as follows.
1. The locations of temples, shrines, and other structures as of Edo-period.
2. The system of domination of residents by Enryaku-ji Temple and the residents' communities.
3. The residents' obligation to Enryaku-ji Temple, for example the role of guard, "Kunin", bonzes who lived as laymen, in the festival of Hiyoshi-Jinjya Shrine.
4. How "Kunin" coped with the Restoration of Meiji, the separation of gods and Buddha to keep their social status.
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