Intellectural and Socio-cultural study of "the Kyoto University Cultural History (Bunka-shi) School"

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520080
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: KIKUCHI AKIRA 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 助教 (80314277)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 京大文化史学派 / 文化史 / 宗教史 / 民俗学 / 西田直二郎

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to investigate the intellectual and socio-cultural history of "Kyoto University cultural history (Bunka-shi) school." Dr. Naojiro Nishida (1886-1964), the chair of the Japanese History in Kyoto Imperial University, and his pupil studied the Japanese religious history under the multi-disciplinary influence of folklore studies, archaeology, anthropology, which made unique contributions in this field and has been called "Kyoto University cultural history (Bunka-shi) school." Their research materials (notes, books, photos, movies and so on) are preserved at the Kyoto University Museum. We made a basic catalogue of them. We also took some "revisiting fieldwork" of the research field where the school had studied in 1930’s, which can show the socio-cultural changes of these areas. In this way, our project show the detailed images of the school and provide basic date which can be used for the further research of the school and its research fields.

Free Research Field

宗教学・民俗学