2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on the Establishment and Development of Hiragana Old Movable Type Printing
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21K00272
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02010:Japanese literature-related
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| Research Institution | Hosei University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 古活字版 / 角倉素庵 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, I investigated the characteristics of the Hiragana movable typefaces that were prevalent in the early Edo period. First, I confirmed that the usage of letters in the Hiragana movable typefaces tended to match that of the scribes at the time.
Furthermore, I confirmed that the same set of movable typefaces was used in multiple works, including the "Hojoki." Then, by investigating the usage of specific typefaces, I revealed the publication order of each work. Additionally, in the Sagabon third edition of the "Tsurezuregusa," I pointed out that the movable typefaces from the Keicho 15th edition of the "Nihon Shoki" were mixed in, suggesting that both works were published in the workshop of Suminokura Soan.
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| Free Research Field |
日本文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
前近代における平仮名書記は連綿体を用いることを主とした。平仮名古活字版は連綿体活字を多用することで自然な書記形態の再現に成功したが、今回の調査で字母の使用においても自然で、可読性の高い印刷をめざしていたことを明らかにできた。
また、嵯峨本は従来、本阿弥光悦の事業と見なされることが多かったが、近年ようやくそれが角倉素庵の事業であることが指摘されるようになった。本研究では嵯峨本と周辺書が一連の刊行物であることを明らかにしたほか、『徒然草』における慶長15年版『日本書紀』活字の混入の事実を指摘し、両者がともに素庵による刊行書であることを指摘した点でも意義があると考える。
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