A study of the Japanese history using OURAIMONO documents in Hokuriku region

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02555
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: KOHRI Chizuko 弘前大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50312476)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 往来物 / 北陸 / 北前船 / 日本海域 / 日本語史 / 言語生活 / 地域格差 / 文化交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This reseach presented an uneven distribution of OURAIMONO documents in the　Hokuriku region with its bibliographical and philogical introducution.The results also demonstrated those documents played an important role in order to discuss the educational environment as well as socio-cultural settings in such regions as Ishikawa,Toyama and Niigata during the early modern period.There are the following two significant achievements in this study．Finding and introducing some unread documents.Clarifying the regional variations in terms of their cultural intercourses many documents printed in Edo were found in Niigata prefecture while many documents printed in Kansai region such as Kyoto and Osaka were more brought into Ishikawa prefecture.

Free Research Field

日本語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

地域に残存する文化資源の往来物資料について、新たな利活用を提案発見したものであり、関西文化圏と東北文化圏、北陸文化圏の関係性を分析した研究成果は、今後の地域文化や社会発展に寄与するものである。
また往来物資料は、語彙や地理、歴史、理数系といった分野以外に芸術に関わる記載もあり、異分野連携研究の可能性がある点でも意義がある。