A Study of Japanese Writing Activities in Ancient Times based on Annotations of Kaifuso

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00331
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02010:Japanese literature-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Takamatsu Hisao 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (40287933)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 土佐 朋子 佛教大学, 文学部, 教授 (00390427) ; 井實 充史 福島大学, 人間発達文化学類, 教授 (20277776)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 懐風藻 / 日本上代の文筆活動 / 詩序 / 漢文伝 / 日本漢詩 / 日本漢文

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main work of the study was creating annotations of Kaifuso. Eleven members in all worked on annotations as a cooperative study and continuously held workshops in order to publish a new complete commentary of Kaifuso, after reviewing each consideration relatively and completing them in a comparatively short period by taking maximum advantage of cooperatively studying together.
On the occasion of the study, the new coronavirus epidemic which began in 2020 obliged us to suspend the activities temporarily or change how our study group would proceed, but we could finish reviewing all prose and poetry in the first half of 2021. After that, we have been working on the summarizing stage, as well as revising or adjusting the commentaries to apply the results of the study group’s discussion.

Free Research Field

日本上代文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

『懐風藻』の新たな全注釈の提供によって、問題点の多い内容について、研究者や一般読者の理解を助け、飛鳥時代～奈良時代前半（7世紀後半～8世紀半ば）の日本漢詩文へのアプローチを現状より容易にすることが可能となる。注釈の作成にあたっては、近年様々に充実しつつある漢詩文のデータベースを利用しつつ、従来以上に用例を丁寧に洗い出すことを重視したので、用例に裏付けられた適切な解釈を示すことができた。