2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
THE CRISIS IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE WOODEN BOATS AND BOAT-BUILDERS
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21520833
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Konan University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
DEGUCHI Masato 甲南大学, フィールド写真家, KOREC地域連携プロジェクトフィールド写真講座講師,船の建造と民俗の写真記録を担当
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 物質文化 |
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| Research Abstract |
Now, traditional Japanese wooden boats and wooden boat-builders are crisis. Most of the traditional boat-builders have reached their 80's from the late 70's without successors, so that the number of the skillful boat-builders have been decreasing rapidly. While Japan has inherited the most distinctive wooden boat-culture in the world, it has been becoming extinct. In this research project, I faced the actualities of the Japanese wooden boat-techniques and the folk customs of boat-builders' lives.
I investigated the construction processes of the traditional wooden boats and examined the lives of the boat-builders and other associated workers in detail. And I practically considered the conditions to inherit and preserve the skills and cultures of traditional Japanese wooden boats.
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