A Study of the Literary Cultural Environment that Supported the Sengoku Shimazu's Territorial Cultures and Their Early Modern Adaptation and Reorganization

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370236
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Akira 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (40287941)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 島津氏 / 領国文化 / 日本中世文学 / 近世的再編 / 文芸環境 / 語り物 / 幸若舞曲

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has two goals: 1) to understand the literary cultural environment that the Shimazu clan fostered in the Sengoku period; 2) to understand the way in which this environment was reorganized into various cultures of the modern Satsuma domain. To achieve these goals, I conducted archival research in several institutions including Reimeikan and the Kagoshima Prefectural Library, and analyzed primary sources that record literary cultural activities by the successive heads of the Shimazu clan and members of Niiro, Kabayama, Yamada and other noted families. As a result, I discovered previously unknown facts regarding how medieval literary cultures (in particular, narrative literature such as kowaka bukyoku (ballad-drama)) were received and disseminated in local society, as well as how the Shimazu clan’s perception of history was formed and developed. I also presented and published these new discoveries.

Free Research Field

日本文学・日本中世文学の研究