Comparative Study of Social Order and Process of Change to Feudalism in Japan and Western Europe by Creation of Paleographical Methods

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320121
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Historical studies in general
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: KOCHI Shosuke 法政大学, 国際日本学研究所, 客員研究員 (80013283)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SAKAUE Yasutoshi 九州大学, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 教授 (30162275) ; OGUCHI Masashi 法政大学, 文学部, 教授 (00177198) ; OKAZAKI Atsushi 九州大学, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 教授 (40194336) ; IWANAMI Atsuko 慶應義塾大学, 理工学部, 教授 (60286648)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): CHIBA Toshiyuki 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (20345242) ; TAGUCHI Masaki 北海道大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 教授 (20206931) ; GOTO Atsuko 法政大学, 文学部, 教授 (20195928) ; OTSUKI Yasuhiro 一橋大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 教授 (70223873) ; KANO Osamu 名古屋大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (90376517) ; KIKUCHI Shigeto 青山学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80712562)
• Research Collaborator: TSUDA Takuro ; MERSIOVSKY Mark ; WIDDER Ellen
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 比較史料学 / 比較歴史学 / 君主発給文書 / 文字・文書 / 象徴 / 儀礼

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study got three points as a result of comparison and examination between Japan and Germany based on the image of the original documents: "courtesy", "symbol", and "decision making". We also clarified changes of the original documents as "the life of historical materials" through the elucidation of a process issuing a document and its secondary use. The difference between Japan and Europe is huge, though consequently both took similar translocation process. The representation of a monarch shown in the document is a monotone and poor fanciness in Japan whereas it has pictorial decoration in Europe. It is important that Japanese official document had no need to produce such a decorative document, though there was the technique to create it. This difference has a possibility as new material clarifying an establishing process of feudalism

Free Research Field

日本中世史