2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Critical reconstruction of the knowledge on the Wokou, "Japanese Outrage" in the sixteenth century
| Project/Area Number |
25870342
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
History of Asia and Africa
Historical studies in general
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 倭寇 / 明 / 中国 / 海域 / 国際関係 / 歴史 / 海賊 / 東アジア |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Focusing on the Wokou, “Japanese Outrage” in the sixteenth century, I made an intensive research on the Chinese sources, to review some persons of that time, who acted as intermediator between the authority and the rebels. Through this research, I illustrated the fact that the officials and the Wokou bandits were occasionally in close cooperation on some economic and security issues, and that this flexibility and instability of the oficial policy and the social structure of Ming China made it possible for the people in the coastal provinces to have clandestine connections with the East Asian maritime world despite of the prohibition.
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| Free Research Field |
東洋史 中国明代史 東アジア海域史
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