Reconstructing and Evaluating the Study of Tsurezuregusa and its Canonization

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22520179
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: International Research Center for Japanese Studies
• Principal Investigator: ARAKI Hiroshi 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 教授 (60193075)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 徒然草 / 随筆 / 古典化 / 国際的日本文学研究 / 方丈記 / 枕草子

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of my project is to reconstruct and evaluate the study of medieval literal classics Tsurezuregusa and its canonization. This research was accomplished from five angles of view, such as bibliographic research, focusing the era of Tsureduregusa, hermeneutic reading and its history, modernization of classics and analyzing texts in the context of international Japanese studies. In the process, I also researched the similar genre masterpieces: for example, Hojoki and Makuranososhi.
I made many presentations on this project at workshops and international conferences in Japan and abroad, and published several articles in academic journals. Moreover, in the public lecture, newspaper, and radio program etc., I tried announcing my fruits to the public. Finally, the almost of whole results on this project were collected and published in the book ‘Chusei no Zuihitsu’ edited by me. And I made translation of the up-to-date foreign scholar’s English article, which is included in that book.

Free Research Field

日本文学