2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Formation and Transformation of the Tenno's Authority in Ancient Japan, and The East Asian World

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520583
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese history
Research Institution	Osaka Shoin Women's University
Principal Investigator	HORI Yutaka Osaka Shoin Women's University, 学芸学部, 准教授 (50310769)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	日本史 / 東洋史 / 宗教学 / 仏教学 / 日本古代史 / 東大寺 / 宗廟
Research Abstract	This research located formation and transformation of the Tenno's authority from the 7th century to the 11th century. In that case, it contemplates the exchange with the east Asian world. Emperor's ancestor festa receives the influence of a continental ancestral mausoleum "Soubyou" festa, and is formed in full scale as a festa to the Emperor's ancestor god "Amaterasu" and Emperor's ancestor mausoleum "Sanryo" in the latter half of the 7th century. Afterwards, the ancestor gods whose names are "Kashiibyou" and the Hachiman god divided from ancestor gods. Ise Jingu Shrine and the Emperor's ancestor mausoleum "Sanryo" became concomitant. The function as the ancestral mausoleum "Soubyou" in "Sanryo" declined at the 10th end of the century. On the other hand, Ise Jingu Shrine and the Hachimangu shrine come to be called an ancestral mausoleum "Soubyou". Moreover, the Todaiji Temple great image of buddha was an one's double of the emperor authority, and the change is related to the change previously described.

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