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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Impact of The Arabian Nights on the Formation of the Islamic Middle East in Europe and Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14201054
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文学一般(含文学論・比較文学)・西洋古典
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Ethnology

Principal Investigator

NISHIO Tetsuo  National Museum of Ethnology, Center for Research Devdopment, Associate Professor, 研究戦略センター, 教授 (90221473)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SUGITA Hideaki  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (90179143)
ODA Jun'ichi  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Associate Professor, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 助教授 (10177230)
AOYAGI Etsuko  University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor, 人文社会科学研究科, 助教授 (70195171)
SUMI Akiko  Kyoto Notre Dame University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor, 人間文化学科, 助教授 (20340466)
YAMANAKA Yuriko  National Museum of Ethnology, Department of Cultural Research, Assistant Professor, 民族文化研究部, 助手 (20251390)
Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2005
KeywordsArabian Nights / Thousand and One Nights / Middle East / Islam / Arab / Arabic literature / Orientalism / folktale
Research Abstract

The names, such as Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sindbad, are very popular characters among Japanese children, whereas the title of the Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights is often associated with an erotic flavor. This situation seems to have been brought about as a historical consequence of modernization in Japan, in which Japan has accepted the Arabian Nights as a literary product of Orientalism in Europe. Since the first appearance of the Arabian Nights in 1704, when the first Western rendition of the Arabian Nights was published in France by the French Orientalist, Antoine Galland, the Arabian Nights had played, and is still playing, a decisive role in forming the general image of the Islamic Middle East in Europe, which in turn influenced the Japanese view of the Middle East.
In the research project, we analyzed the reception and transformation of the Arabian Nights and its influence on the formation of the Middle Eastern images in Europe and Japan in connection with the emergence of the so-called Orientalism. We also finally discussed how the Arabian Nights has resonated Orientalism in Europe and Japan from a comparative perspective.
In the consequence of the research project, we made a special exhibition of the Arabian Nights in the National Museum of Ethnology from 9, September to 7, December in 2004. In preparing for the Arabian Nights Exhibition, we were able to build a substantial collection of editions of the Arabian Nights and other related books, some of which are very rare even in the libraries of Europe. The Arabian Nights collection in the National Museum of Ethnology may indeed be one of the most extensive library collections on the subject throughout the world, and we hope that scholars from all nations will profit from it in the future.

  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All 2006 2004

All Journal Article (18 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Arabian Nights and Orientalism from a Japanese Perspective2006

    • Author(s)
      西尾哲夫
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalisum(Perspectives from East and West)

      Pages: 154-176

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Arabian Nights in Modern Japan : ABrief Historical Sketch2006

    • Author(s)
      杉田英明
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalisum(Perspectives from East and West)

      Pages: 116-153

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Repetitiveness in the Arabian Nights : Openness as Self-foundation2006

    • Author(s)
      青柳悦子
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalisum(Perspectives from East and West)

      Pages: 68-90

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Bode,Voice and Gaze : Text and Illustration in the Frame Story of the Thousand and One Nights2006

    • Author(s)
      鷲見朗子, Claus Cluverと共著
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalism(Perspectives from East and West

      Pages: 194-218

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Alexander in the Thousand and One Nights and the Ghazali Connection2006

    • Author(s)
      山中由里子
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalism(Perspectives from East and West

      Pages: 93-115

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Arabian Nights and Orientalism from a Japanese Perspective.2006

    • Author(s)
      Nishio, Tetsuo
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalism : Perspectives from East and West.(In Nishio & Yamanaka eds., London : I.B.Tauris.)

      Pages: 154-176

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Arabian Nights in Modern Japan : A Brief Historical Sketch.2006

    • Author(s)
      Sugita, Hideaki
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalism : Perspectives from East and West.(In Nishio, Yamanaka eds., London : I.B.Tauris.)

      Pages: 116-153

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Repetitiveness in the Arabian Nights : Openness as Self-foundation.2006

    • Author(s)
      Aoyagi, Etsuko
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalism : Perspectives from East and West.(In Nishio, Yamanaka eds., London : I.B.Tauris.)

      Pages: 68-90

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Body, Voice and Gaze : Text and Illustration in the Frame Story of the Thousand and One Nights2006

    • Author(s)
      Sumi, Akiko
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalism : Perspectives from East and West.(In Nishio, Yamanaka eds., London : I.B.Tauris.)(co-author, Claus Cluver)

      Pages: 194-218

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Alexander in the Thousand and One Nights and the Ghazali Connection.2006

    • Author(s)
      Yamanaka, Yuriko
    • Journal Title

      The Arabian Nights and Orientalism : Perspectives from East and West.(In Nishio & Yamanaka eds., London : I.B.Tauris.)

      Pages: 93-115

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Les Mille et Une Nuits er la genese litteraire de l'Orientalisme au Japon2004

    • Author(s)
      西尾哲夫
    • Journal Title

      Les Mille et Une Nuits en partage(Aboubakr Chraibi ed.)(Paris : Sindbad)

      Pages: 141-150

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Creation d'une base de donnees des motifs des recits folkolriques pour l'analyse des structures semantiques2004

    • Author(s)
      小田淳一
    • Journal Title

      Les Mille et Une Nuits en partage(Aboubakr Chraibi ed.)(Paris : Sindbad)

      Pages: 53-69

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] L'oeuvre entre l'Orient et l'Occident : Renouvellement de la litterature a partir des Mille et Une Nuits2004

    • Author(s)
      青柳悦子
    • Journal Title

      Science and Technology(Proceedings of 5th Tunisia-Japan Symposium on Culture)(Sfax-Tunisia)

      Pages: 217-219

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Les Mille et Une Nuits et les automates2004

    • Author(s)
      山中由里子
    • Journal Title

      Les Mille et Une Nuits en partage(Aboubakr Chraibi ed.)(Paris : Sindbad)

      Pages: 39-52

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Les Mille et Une Nuits et la genese litteraire de l'Orientalismeau Japon.2004

    • Author(s)
      Nishio, Tetsuo
    • Journal Title

      Les Mille et Une Nuits en partage.(In Aboubakr Chraibi ed., Paris : Sindbad.)

      Pages: 141-150

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Creation d'une base de donnees des motifs des recits folkloriques pour l'analyse des structures semantiques.2004

    • Author(s)
      Oda, Jun'ichi
    • Journal Title

      Les Mille et Une Nuits en partage.(In Aboubakr Chraibi ed., Paris : Sindbad.)

      Pages: 53-69

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] L' oeuvre entre l' Orient et l' Occ ident : Renouvellement de la litterature a partir des Mille et Une Nuits2004

    • Author(s)
      Aoyagi, Etsuko
    • Journal Title

      In Proceedings of the 5th Tunisia Japan Symposium on Culture, Science and Technology (Sfax -Tunisia).

      Pages: 217-219

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Les Mille et Une Nuits et les automates.2004

    • Author(s)
      Yamanaka, Yuriko
    • Journal Title

      Les Mille et Une Nuits en partage.(In Aboubakr Chraibi ed., Paris : Sindbad.)

      Pages: 39-52

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] The Arabian Nights and Orientalism : Perspectives from East and West.2006

    • Author(s)
      西尾哲夫, 山中由里子共編
    • Total Pages
      269
    • Publisher
      I.B.Tauris
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] The Arabian Nights and Orientalism : Perspectives from East and West.2006

    • Author(s)
      Nishio, Tetsuo, Yamanaka, Yuriko eds.
    • Total Pages
      269
    • Publisher
      London : I.B.Tauris.
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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