2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Study of Acceptance of Buddhist Discourse among Japanese Post-war Novelists in their Youth
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22K20037
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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 |
0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
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| Research Institution | Aichi Shukutoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-08-31 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 日本近代文学 / 戦争文学 / アジア太平洋戦争 / 仏教 / 知識人 / 修養 / 大西巨人 / 野間宏 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study investigates how postwar writers of modern Japanese literature accepted Buddhist discourse in their youth and utilized it in their creative activities. I mainly examined the two novelist, Onishi Kyojin and Noma Hiroshi.
From the Taisho period to the early Showa period, Buddhist culture influenced intellectual youth, as a discourse of self-cultivation. For example, Kurata Hyakuzo's "The Priest and His Disciples" gained a large readership.Young intellectuals had the impression that Shinran was a practitioner who worked with the people, and that Dogen was an outstanding intellectual disciplinarian. As Marxist social reform was suppressed in the wartime, these Buddhist monks became the spiritual foundation for Onishi and Noma.
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| Free Research Field |
日本近現代文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
個別の作家や創作物に限定して考察するのではなく、教養形成期の作家たちを共時的に取り巻いた仏教言説の影響に着目したことは新しい手法である。これにより、仏教が戦争参与を強める一方、戦後に作家となる知識青年は時局との緊張関係の中で、望ましい社会参画や真理探究のロールモデルとして宗祖イメージを構築しようとした傾向がわかった。宗旨理解の正統さは問題とせず、社会で受容された仏教イメージを重視し前述の傾向を明らかにしたことが、本研究の独自性である。
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