2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comparative Study of Early Modern Catholic Texts in Asian Languages - on Gewu Qiongli Bianlan, a Chinese catechism published in Manila
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20K21921
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0101:Philosophy, art, and related fields
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
Wang Wenlu 東京大学, 東京カレッジ, 特任研究員 (50876232)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-09-11 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | カトリック教理書 / カトリック世界宣教 / マニラ・インキュナブラ / キリシタン版 / 翻訳 / 知識体系の対話 / デジタル学術編集版 / TEI |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
One of the Manila incunabula, "Gewu Qiongli Bianlan" (Compendium of the Investigation of Things and Fathoming the Principle, 1607), is a Chinese catechism published outside the Chinese mainland. Its content and literary style show the influence of the Four Books, histories of the "Gangjian" genre, daily encyclopedias, and other popular books. This influence reflects the intellectual environment of the lower end of the intellectual spectrum. Out of the three fascicles of "Gewu," only the first one is shared between the Spanish original and the Japanese version (which was also based on the Spanish version). In the Chinese and Japanese versions, different epistemic dialogues can be observed. However, knowledge shared among East Asia, such as traditional medicine, emerged as commonalities as well. This study has also composed a digital scholarly edition encoded according to the TEI guidelines, which have now been acknowledged as the international framework for encoding humanities texts.
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| Free Research Field |
中国思想
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
ドミニコ会士の手による、マニラで刊行された『格物窮理便覧』を、スペイン語原典、同時代の日本語訳であるキリシタン版、さらにイエズス会士を中心に中国大陸で刊行したカトリック教理書との比較を通して考察することで、同書の地域特性をより明らかにした。また、地域や修道会の単位を超え、カトリック宣教師による現地語著作を横断的に考察し超地域的な特性を検討することで、中国キリスト教史研究とキリシタン研究を有機的に連結でき、アジア地域内部の視点の価値を明らかにした。同書のTEIに準拠したデジタル学術編集版の作成は（とりわけ東アジアの言語で書かれた）人文学のテキストの国際基準に準拠した構造化の発展にも寄与した。
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