2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on the Formation of Japanese Medieval Chronicles and the Historiographies quoted in the Commentaries on the Tale of Genji

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22520168
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese literature
Research Institution	University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	AKIYAMA Kanako (YOSHIMORI Kanako) 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (10302829)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	古代文学 / 河海抄
Research Abstract	I have dealt in this project with the Kakai-sho, written by Yotsutsuji Yoshinari and edited in the Period of Northern and Southern Courts. This work is known as an early commentary on the whole volumes of Tale of Genji. First, I have tried to clarify this commentary's special quality, which tends to make relative such a general recognition in recent years that a commentary is written for comprehension of a work. I have also examined the problem how was constructed the historical recognition in medieval Japan where the official history did not exist after the Six Chronicles had been compiled by imperial order.

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