2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Tourism study of sightseeing and boat festival using Japanese traditional wooden boats
| Project/Area Number |
25501027
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Tourism Studies
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| Research Institution | Konan University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
DEGUCHI Masato , 写真家
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 和船 / 文化継承 / 遊覧 / 船祭り / 観光学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this project, I have researched the inland water boat tourism and maritime boat festival in which Japanese traditional wooden boats（wasen）are used, and made the latest database of them in Japan. Wasen have almost disappeared in the fishery and water transport. But they still survive as pleasure-boats or festival boats in some regions. It is possible that this situation also continues in the future.To preserve the wasen culture, it is important to maintain the local labor system in which one person works both as a boat-builder and boatman.It is also important that the government establishes the protection systems, to protect the boat-builders as intangible cultural properties and foster their successors. The sole annual festivals cannot offer boat-builders enough occasions to maintain their wasen construction technology. Today, however, tourism is providing increasing building opportunities of wasen, thus proved useful also for the protection of the traditional boat festivals.
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| Free Research Field |
民俗地理学
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