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2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

Digitizing the Heritage and Modern Reception of Zeami's Critical Writings

Research Project

Project/Area Number 21F21702
Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research InstitutionHosei University

Principal Investigator

山中 玲子  法政大学, 能楽研究所, 教授 (60240058)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MCGAUGHEY-SLANE HANNA  法政大学, 能楽研究所, 外国人特別研究員
Project Period (FY) 2021-09-28 – 2024-03-31
Keywords能 / 世阿弥 / 風姿花伝 / Zeami / digitization
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Transcriptions of select manuscripts of Zeami’s Fushikaden were continued.
Dr. McGaughey presented on her transcription techniques and shared ideas with representatives in the field of text markup at the annual Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) “Text as Data” Conference. At the Virtual Humboldt Colloquium in November, she presented statistics about the digitized manuscripts. A workshop with Dr. Elisa Beshero-Bondar on XSLT transformation at the annual Digital Humanities conference helped her refine the requirements for the transcription and create preliminary mock-ups for making the data available online to an audience who is not tech-savvy. She also presented her findings on indicators of gendered agency in noh plays at the German Academic International Network (GAIN) conference in Bonn, Germany.
We negotiated with Toppan Solution to digitize Nose Asaji’s first annotated edition of Zeami’s writings using their in-house state-of-the-art OCR.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

Transcriptions of select manuscripts of Zeami’s Fushikaden, including the oldest good copy available in the Ikoma Hozanji Collection, the oldest good copy in the Kanze archive, and an annotated copy also in the Kanze archive, are progressing well.
Dr. McGaughey presented on her transcription techniques at TEI “Text as Data” Conference. At the Virtual Humboldt Colloquium, she presented statistics about the digitized manuscripts. She also presented her findings on indicators of gendered agency in noh plays at the German Academic International Network conference.
Finally, we negotiated with Toppan Solution to digitize Nose Asaji’s first annotated edition of Zeami’s writings using their in-house state-of-the-art OCR.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

In the final months of the fellowship, Dr. McGaughey is continuing to transcribe manuscripts of Zeami’s writings and refining her results about indicators of gendered agency in noh plays as she continues to write up her dicsoveries. We hope to receive the digitization of Nose Asaji’s edition before she leaves and will continue to analyze the results and include them in reports of her findings.

  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2023 2022

All Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results)

  • [Presentation] Almost as if in Japan: Noh Performance and Practice in the Japanese Colonies2023

    • Author(s)
      Hanna McGaughey
    • Organizer
      Association of Asian Studies Virtual Session
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Celebrating Deviation: Introducing Markup Options for Variant Japanese Phonetic Characters known as Hentaigana2022

    • Author(s)
      Hanna McGaughey
    • Organizer
      TEI 2022 Conference "Text as Data" (TEI2022)
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Somoku kokudo im No; als mittelalterliche Politisierung der Natur2022

    • Author(s)
      Hanna McGaughey
    • Organizer
      18. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Close and Distant Reading: Annotation, NLP, and Statistics for Digital Text Analyses2022

    • Author(s)
      Hanna McGaughey
    • Organizer
      Humboldt Virtual Colloquium
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Digital Humanities and Medieval Japanese Studies2022

    • Author(s)
      Hanna McGaughey
    • Organizer
      GAIN 2022 Annual Conference
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2023-12-25  

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