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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Acomprehensive study of Japanese treatises by the scholars and craftsmen who contributed to the science and technology in the late Edo period.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14023227
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Review Section Humanities and Social Sciences
Research InstitutionAoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College

Principal Investigator

YATSUMIMI Toshifumi  Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College, Department of Liberal Arts, Professor, 教養学科, 教授 (30220172)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KUROISHI Izumi  Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College, Department of Liberal Arts, Professor, 教養学科, 教授 (70341881)
Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2005
Keywordshistory of science / history of technology / history / design of architecture / Japanese history / Oriental history
Research Abstract

This study consists of four parts.
1. A study of Chinese books by Western missionaries in the middle of 19th century. They were brought to and had strong influence on 1860s and 1870s Japan. Five treatises by Benjamin Hobson(1816-1873) were read in particular. We investigated his life and works with' Hobson papers' in the Wellcome Library, London.
2. A study of writings by Kawamoto Komin(1810-1871), who was a professor at the Institute of Western Studies in Edo city. His translation of A.Ypey's Handleiding tot de physiologie was examined at the Library of Nihon University School of Medicine.
3 A study of works by Ueno Shunnojo(1790-1851). He was a maker of precision instruments at Nagasaki and played actively in a wide field such as saltpeter production, metal engraving, forging, calico, medicine manufacture, painting and import business. His most well known writing " Houka Hikan" (Secret treatise for artillerymen) was studied with using some texts and is found to have included chapters of surveying.
4. A study of the characteristics and influence of the introduction of domestic Chinese architectural textbook in Japan during Edo period.

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2006 2005

All Journal Article (6 results)

  • [Journal Article] 日本地学の展開(大正13年~昭和20年)<その6>2006

    • Author(s)
      日本地学史編纂委員会
    • Journal Title

      地学雑誌 115巻1号

      Pages: 96-109

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Editorial Committee of History of Geosciences in Japan (Tokyo Geographical Society), Development of Geosciences in Japan, 1924 to 1945, Part 6.2006

    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geography Vol.115, No.1

      Pages: 96-l09

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 入華プロテスタント宣教師と日本の書物・西洋の書物2005

    • Author(s)
      八耳俊文
    • Journal Title

      或問 9号

      Pages: 27-41

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 上野俊之丞と幕末洋学史2005

    • Author(s)
      八耳俊文
    • Journal Title

      洋学史通信 21号

      Pages: 7

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Protestant Missionaries in China and Japanese and Western Books.2005

    • Author(s)
      YATSUMIMI Toshifumi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Studies on Cultural and Linguistic Exchanges between China and the West No.9

      Pages: 27-41

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Ueno Shunnojo and the Western Learning in the Late Edo Period.2005

    • Author(s)
      YATSUMIMI Toshifumi
    • Journal Title

      Newsletter of the Society for the History of Western Learning in Japan No.21

      Pages: 7

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2008-05-27  

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