2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The research of venerating the Daimyo ancestor in the end of Tokugawa period

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520572
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese history
Research Institution	Tottori University
Principal Investigator	KISHIMOTO Satoru Tottori University, 地域学部, 准教授 (80324995)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2010
Keywords	藩祖 / 政治改革 / 神格化
Research Abstract	The aim of this research is to clarify the various aspects of the phenomenon of the apotheosis of the daimyo clan ancestor at the end of the Tokugawa period. The point is that the Meiji National rites had been influenced by the Choshu clan rites, and that daimyo had a tendency to idealize his ancestor's reign. And I presented the results of my research to Meiji Restoration History Society in 2009. This result suggests we need to check foreign religious studies into this research, and rethink the relationship between veneration the clan ancestor and separation of Shinto and Buddhism in the 19th century Japan.

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