2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The critical study on the legends of Tamuramaro and Yoshitsune in the early modern North Japan area

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520589
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese history
Research Institution	Miyagi Gakuin Women's University
Principal Investigator	KIKUCHI Isao Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, 学芸学部, 教授 (20186191)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	義経蝦夷渡り伝説 / 田村麻呂伝説 / 観世音縁起 / 相原友直 / 松浦武四郎 / 菅江真澄 / 偽書批判 / オキクルミ
Research Abstract	Firstly, this study compiles references to the legends surrounding the historical figures of Tamuramaro and Yoshitsune in written sources from early modern Japan. It also elucidates the background to the several versions of the Tale of the Origin of the Kanzeon Buddhist Deity from the Minmaya region of Tsugaru, examines the critical study of the Legend of Yoshitsune's Escape to Ezo land by the Sendai Domain confucian scholar Aihara Tomonao, Matsuura Takeshiro's sympathic stance towards the conflation of the Ainu hero Okikurumi with Yoshitsune and the role that his views played in assimilation policies towards the Ainu, and changes over time of the legends within Sendai Domain concerning the Ezo leaders known as Akuroou, Takamaru, and Ootake.

(3 results)