The Interdisciplinary Research for Japanese Tea Industry and Culture from an East Asian Viewpoint

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01869
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: TOBE KEN 静岡大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (20515407)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 今村 直樹 熊本大学, 永青文庫研究センター, 准教授 (50570727) ; 吉田 建一郎 大阪経済大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (60580826) ; 長沼 さやか 静岡大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (80535568)
• Research Collaborator: OKAMURA Tatsuo 駒澤大学, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 茶 / 茶業 / 茶文化 / 日本 / 中国 / 東アジア / ロシア / イギリス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, we examined the Japanese tea industry and culture in early modern and modern period from an East Asian viewpoint. Especially we focused on (1) the development of tea production and its export in early modern Shizuoka and Kumamoto, (2) the relationship between Japan-Russia tea trade and China in 20th century, (3) the activity of a UK based global enterprise which traded Japanese and Chinese tea in 20th century. In this process, we also had collected many historical materials relating to Japanese and Chinese tea at several libraries in Japan, Taiwan, United States and United Kingdom.

Free Research Field

中国近現代史