Traditional maintenance in craftsman technology and study about modernization:in a viewpoint of "Making by hand"

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520932
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: National Museum of Japanese History
• Principal Investigator: KOIKE Jun'ichi 国立歴史民俗博物館, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 教授 (60241452)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): AOKI Takahiro 国立歴史民俗博物館, 研究部, 准教授 (70353373)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 技術 / 継承 / 近代化 / 感覚 / 祖神

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research investigated "making by hand" about the problem which concerns the modernization as a viewpoint about craftsman's technology and analyzed.
It was put in the carpenter trade, the sake brewing trade and tub barrel production and the situation that technology is prescriptive each other mutually was investigated, and it was elucidated that ancestral god belief concerning a potter's wheel was also succeeded to about modern fountain pen production again.
A word as "making by hand" had it custom made in the modernization of craftsman technology or, was used by an implication of the partial variable specification, and I made it clear that a sense about traditional technology is sometimes embedded there.

Free Research Field

民俗学