2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Bone and Ancestor Tablet-Comparative Folkloric Study on Ancestor Worship in the East Asian Societies-
| Project/Area Number |
12571015
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Section | 海外学術 |
|---|
| Research Field |
文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
|
|---|
| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
FURUIE Shimpei University of Tsukuba, History and Anthropology, Professor, 歴史・人類学系, 教授 (40173520)
|
|---|
| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAGOMI Mutsuko University of Tsukuba, History and Anthropology, Assistant Professor, 歴史・人類学系, 助教授 (60302337)
YAMAMOTO Takashi University of Tsukuba, History and Anthropology, Professor, 歴史・人類学系, 教授 (50191416)
SINNO Toshikazu University of Tsukuba, History and Anthropology, Professor, 歴史・人類学系, 教授 (10171076)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2003
|
| Keywords | Ancestor Worship / Funeral system / Tomb / Ancestor tablet / Funeral rite / Korea |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
This research project on the ancestor worship in Korea, Maui island Japan, Okinawa and Taiwan was focused two symbols, bone and ancestor tablet
In these area societies traditionally used a double funeral system to send the dead to the other world. At the first funeral rite, people placed the deceased in a coffin and left as it was for some years. At the second funeral rite, they took the deceased out of coffin, washed the bones. Iii Korea they replaced the bones into new, coffin and place them into new tomb. In Okinawa they placed the bones into a large pot and place them into the descent groups' tomb. On this stage new ancestor tablets are made told put on the family altar in Japan, Okinawa and Taiwan, Contemporary rite of ancestor tablet in Korea has been affected by Confucian ideas in the Korea era
The double grave system being in a rapid extinction since recent times has been commented on. Some area in Japan the sift to the communal burial sites caused the rebirth of the double grave system. Finally the development of ancestor alter of funeral rites after the 1960's is considered to lead the alter with the ancestor tablet becoming snore palatial and evoking a Buddhist paradise
|
