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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Emending and databasing of historical earthquake documents in the Japanese ancient and medieval ages and development of an open-access system

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18310124
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Natural disaster science
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

ISHIBASHI Katsuhiko  Kobe University, RCUSS, Professor (70011723)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HAYAKAWA Yukio  Gunma University, Faculty of Education, Professor (40198825)
EBARA Masaharu  University of Tokyo, Historiographical Institute, Professor (40160379)
TARASHIMA Satoshi  Tokyo National Museum, Information Div, Senior Manager (60370996)
YATA Toshifumi  Niigata University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor (40200521)
HARA Shoichiro  Kyoto University, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Professor (50218616)
Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
Keywordshistorical earthquake documents / emendation of hist.earthq.doc / digitization / database / interdisciplinary study / Ancient and Medieval ages / historical seismology / seismic intensity database
Research Abstract

Almost all of Japan's known historical earthquake records since around the 6th century, which are clippings from various historical sources, have been published in type-printed books of 29 volumes. They are invaluable primary data for the Japanese historical seismology and volcanology, although unknown historical materials should further be searched for and added. There are, however, two serious problems in these books. One is that they contain rather many unreliable materials because the compilers did not carry out any critical examination of historical sources nor selection, which tends to produce errors in historical earthquake catalogs. The other is that the books are just a huge amount of printed papers, which makes full-scale utilization of massive information including keyword searching impossible.
In order to improve these situations fundamentally concerning the ancient and medieval ages, we critically examined all the related historical documents in the existing collections, selected them, carefully emended every text, and composed a re-edited collection in digital form (by XML) through interdisciplinary collaboration among earth scientists, historians and information scientists. Then, we constructed a full-text digital database of all historical earthquake/volcano documents in the ancient and medieval ages (up to ca. A.D. 1600) and developed an open-access system for future improvement of the database by not only the composers but also end-users. Although we restricted the target within the ancient and medieval ages because historical sources in these times have somewhat different characteristics from those in the early modern age and historical records in the latter age are too huge amount to be treated by a small research group, the methodology and technique established in our project can be applied effectively to the early modern age. The database is to be released through internet soon.

  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All 2008 2007 Other

All Journal Article (9 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (4 results) Book (6 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 国立歴史民俗博物館所蔵『顕広王記』応保三年・長寛三年・仁安二年巻2008

    • Author(s)
      高橋 昌明
    • Journal Title

      国立歴史民俗博物館研究報告 139集

      Pages: 221-244

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 富士山の歴史噴火総覧2007

    • Author(s)
      小山 真人
    • Journal Title

      富士火山(荒牧重雄・藤井敏嗣・中田節也・宮地直道編) 論文集

      Pages: 119-136

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 猿沢池が血に染まる-伝承と場のイメージ-2007

    • Author(s)
      笹本 正治
    • Journal Title

      中世文学 52号

      Pages: 34-46

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 文化財情報の発掘と再生-「モノ」と「テキスト」のはざまで-2007

    • Author(s)
      田良島 哲
    • Journal Title

      情報知識学会誌 17

      Pages: 243-250

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 地域情報学の構築と時空間情報解析ツール2007

    • Author(s)
      原 正一郎
    • Journal Title

      人文科学とコンピュータシンポジウム論文集 2007

      Pages: 71-78

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 地震被害と摂津天王寺西浦・遠江中部低地2007

    • Author(s)
      矢田 俊文
    • Journal Title

      中世考古学文献研究会会報 8号

      Pages: 1-15

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Database of eruptions and other activities of Fuji Volcano, Japan, based on historical records since AD7812007

    • Author(s)
      Koyama, M
    • Journal Title

      Fuji Volcano (Eds. Aramaki, S., T. Fujii, S. Nakata, and N. Miyaji)

      Pages: 119-136

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Quarry and Rebirth of Cultural Assets Information2007

    • Author(s)
      Tarashima, S
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge Vol. 17

      Pages: 243-250

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Development of area informatics and spatiotemporal analysis tools2007

    • Author(s)
      Hara, S, M, Shibayama
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2007

      Pages: 71-78

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] Release of Online Database of Historical Documents on Japanese Earthquakes and Eruptions in the Ancient and Medieval Ages2008

    • Author(s)
      Ishibashi, K
    • Organizer
      Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2008
    • Place of Presentation
      Chiba, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2008-05-27
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] Time sequence of the 1108 eruption of Asama Volcano constructed from the correlation between deposits and historical documents2008

    • Author(s)
      Hayakawa, Y
    • Organizer
      Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2008
    • Place of Presentation
      Chiba, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2008-05-26
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] Overview of geo-temporal systems for area informatics2007

    • Author(s)
      Hara, S.
    • Organizer
      PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings
    • Place of Presentation
      Berkeley, USA
    • Year and Date
      2007-10-18
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] Emending and databasing all historical earthquake documents in the Japanese ancient and medieval ages through interdisciplinary collaboration2007

    • Author(s)
      Ishibashi, K.
    • Organizer
      IUGG XXIV General Assembly
    • Place of Presentation
      Perugia, Italy
    • Year and Date
      2007-07-10
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 中世の東海道をゆく2008

    • Author(s)
      榎原 雅治
    • Total Pages
      242
    • Publisher
      中央公論新社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Chusei no Tokaido wo Yuku2008

    • Author(s)
      Ebara, M
    • Total Pages
      242
    • Publisher
      Chuokoron-shinsha, Inc
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] 天下凶事と水色変化-池の水が血に染まるとき-2007

    • Author(s)
      笹本 正治
    • Total Pages
      312
    • Publisher
      高志書院
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 歴史家の遠めがね・虫めがね2007

    • Author(s)
      高橋 昌明
    • Total Pages
      223
    • Publisher
      角川学芸出版
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Tenka-kyoji to Suishoku-henka2007

    • Author(s)
      Sasamoto, S
    • Total Pages
      312
    • Publisher
      Koshi Shoin
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] Rekishi-ka no To-megane, Mushi-megane2007

    • Author(s)
      Takahashi, M
    • Total Pages
      223
    • Publisher
      Kadokawa-gakugei Shuppan
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Remarks] 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

    • URL

      http://historical.seismology.jp/erice/

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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