2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A study of Bao-juan- centering on their property of religious literature
| Project/Area Number |
15520221
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOMINAMI Ichiro Kyoto University, Institute for research in humanity, Professor, 人文科学研究所, 教授 (50027554)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Baojuan (Precious Volumes) / Xuanjuan / folk literature / popular religions / popular morality / synchronism in thought |
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| Research Abstract |
I have investigated the many works that belongs to the Baojuan genre that are kept in the libraries in Japan. These investigations placed great importance on to analyze the prefaces and the after words of Baojuan works. Through these investigations I have got the information about the social strata of authors and compilers, the systems of publication and their relationship in popular religions.
I have looked over the recently published big series of books on Chinese religions and folk literatures, for instance, the Gaojuan Chuji and Su-wenxue congkan, and compared the works that treated the same popular themes, such as the Ten Kings in the hell and the story of Mulian's rescue of his mother. From those comparison I have clarified the main current of transformation of Baojuan works in the course of development of modern society in Chine and there relationships between popular morality.
I have wrote a article in the report on main results of this research project entitled "the development of the Mulian folklore in the modern society in China".
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