Sugar in the Society of Modern Japan

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520766
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: The University of Kitakyushu
• Principal Investigator: YAO Keisuke 北九州市立大学, 文学部, 教授 (20212269)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): UENO Akiko 北九州市立自然史歴史博物館, 学芸員 (50455565) ; YAMAMOTO Choji 佐賀大学, 経済学部, 教授 (70264140)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 砂糖 / 菓子 / 食文化 / 台湾 / 佐賀 / 新高製菓 / 長崎貿易 / 門司

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I reseached on Portuguese and Netherlands' cookbook of the 16-18th centuries to compare with Japanese cookbook of the Edo period. And I also researched on the materials about sugar distribution from Osaka to Edo in the Edo period. Furthermore, I researched on the microfilms of the former Taiwan Sugar Industrial Association and the the former Governor-General of Taiwan to examine the roles of Taiwan in the development of food culture of sugar i modern Japan. And I researched on several famous confectioners in Taiwan with a collaborator in Taiwan to examine the influnece of Japanese confectioners in the development of confectionery and sugar industries in Taiwan as well as I researched on the newspapers of HOKUZAN KORON to examine the development of the emiglation from Saga Prefecture to Taiwan in modern period.　And I also researched on the articles newspapaer MOJI SHINPOU to examine the development of sugar refinery in Moji in modern period.

Free Research Field

日本史