A fundamental Study of Chuci (the Songs of Chu) - Studies in Japan in the Edo and Meiji Periods

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370404
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Chinese literature
• Research Institution: Niigata University (2016); Morioka College (2013-2015)
• Principal Investigator: YATA Naoko 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (10451494)
• Research Collaborator: ARAKI Yukiha ; TAJIMA Kaya ; NODA Takeshi ; MAEGAWA Masana
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 日本楚辞学 / 芦東山『楚辞評園』 / 董鴎洲『王註楚辞翼』 / 亀井昭陽『楚辞ケツ』 / 西村天囚『楚辞纂説』 / 西村天囚『屈原賦説』

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Chu Ci, or Songs of Chu, is an anthology of Chinese poetries, which was formed between the pre-Qin dynasty and the Later Han dynasty. Once Chu Ci Ji Zhu, or Collected Commentaries on Chu Ci, written by Zhu Xi (1130-1200) was widely recognized as significant work in the Edo period in Japan, where the Zhu Xi school of Neo-Confucianism was adopted at the government schools, Chu Ci became a research object of the Chinese classics scholars also in Japan. Such studies include Soji Hyo-en, by Ashi Tozan, Ohchu Soji Yoku, by To Ohshu, Soji Ketsu, by Kamei Shoyo in the Edo period, and Soji Sansetsu and Kutsugen Fu Setsu by Nishimura Tenshu in the Meiji period. In this research, we first digitized by typesetting the manuscripts of those Japanese scholars’ works for facilitating future studies. We then clarified the actual situation as well as the academic significance of Chu Ci studies in Japan in those periods, the dawning era of the ‘Japanese Chuciology’.

Free Research Field

中国古典文学