2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
An Investigation of the Turfan Documents and the related Materials
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12571029
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Asian history
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
ARAKAWA Masaharu Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (10283699)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KATAYAMA Akio Tokai University, Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (10224453)
MACHIDA Takayoshi Obirin University, Dept. of International Studies, Associate Professor, 国際学部, 助教授 (50316923)
SEKIO Shiro Niigata University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (70179331)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | Turfan documents / the painted silk cover of coffin / codicology / Astana and Qara-khoja cemetery |
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| Research Abstract |
As the result of excavations carried out between 1959 and 1975, over ten thousand fragments of documents in Chinese have come to light in the grave complexes of Astana and Qara-khoja. However, since the report formal in spite of the importance as the data is not released, it cannot be said that these are used effectively until now. Since the document was secondarily used for a dead person's shoes, a hat, etc. and was buried rather than anything, it becomes indispensable information from a grave room in what state it excavated, but the detailed record for the document does not exist, and so it has the defect which can be referred to as fatal as excavation data. This investigation is for compensating such a defect, and succeeded in restoring the state at the time of an excavation about the document which were excavated from some important tombs. It can be said that it was ready in the preparation which uses the Turfan documents completely from now on.
On the other hand, by this investigation, many data non-opened to the public could be investigated also about the painted silk cover of coffin, and there was discovery which reverses an old established theory greatly.
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