2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comparative Research on Didactic Discourse and Literature in the Era of Enlightenment
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15320028
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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 | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese literature
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
CAMPBELL Robert The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor (50210844)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SATO Satoru Jissen Joshi Daigaku, Faculty of Letters, Professor (50178729)
TANIKAWA Keiichi National Institute of Japanese Literature, Research Department, Professor (10171836)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | history of photography / populist education / Bakumatsu era / didacticism / early modern Japanese literature / Meiji era / sermons / Japanese Literature |
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| Research Abstract |
The main purpose of the current research project was to review the history of expression in the so-called Era of Enlightenment at the beginning of the Meiji period in Japan, especially in terms of how "civilization" was conceptualized, how this (these) conceptions were brought forward discursively, and whether these discourses resulted in new modes of expression in the first decades of Japan's modern age. In an era characterized by didacticism, the government prioritized populist educations at all levels of society, and private sector media coalesced around the new regime.
One of the targets of our research, introduced as data here, was the discourse of populist education in the so-called "small-newspaper" tabloids published by various media and political ventures in Tokyo and Osaka. We focused on "Eiri-Jiyu Shinbun," one of the most widely read titles among the young and lesser-educated classes. Examining news columns and serialized fiction printed from 1882 through 1886, we proceeded to abstract and analyze all terms written in kanji script with vernacular glossing. Glossing kanji with vernacular or slang Japanese became popular in the Edo period, and in the first decades of the modern era, this method was broadly used to teach the vocabulary of modern/western concepts and "civilization" through the act of reading.
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Research Products
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[Book] 読むことの力2004
Author(s)
ロバートキャンベル
Total Pages
290
Publisher
講談社
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
