A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON HISTORIC SPACES ALONG THE BLACK SEA CURRENT IN EAST ASIA

2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17404020
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Architectural history/design
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: MASUDA Kanefusa Ritsumeikan University, 立命館グローバルイノベーション研究機構, 教授 (50313317)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAMINO Yoshiharu 武蔵野美術大学, 教授 (70298024) ; ITAYA Naoko 立命館大学, 立命館グローバルイノベーション研究機構, 研究員 (90399064) ; YI Myongson 立命館大学, 立命館グローバルイノベーション研究機構, 研究員 (20434714)
• Project Period (FY): 2005 – 2008
• Keywords: 東アジア / 黒潮流域 / 建築学 / 民俗学 / 集落 / 文化的景観 / 竹富島 / 波照間島

Research Abstract

The concentrated layout villages consisted of separated small building dwelling, with stone hedge walls to protect strong winds are common in the islands along the Black Sea Current, which streams from Philippine to Taiwan, then up to north Ryukyu Islands to south side coasts of Japan Islands until Ogasawara Islands, and also to Cheju Island in Korea. Especially both the Taketomi and Hateruma islands, located in the most south of Ryukyu Islands, have high value to be a candidate as a cultural landscape of World Heritage, with their existing historic villages, many archaeological dwelling sites of medieval periods, and shell mound sites of older times.