2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research about the performance of Kei-engeki, Japanese light comedy, in the Showa period
| Project/Area Number |
26370114
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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 |
Aesthetics and studies on art
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 軽演劇 / 喜劇 / 大衆演劇 / 大衆文化 / モダニズム |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project is about Japanese light comedy which showed prosperity as a genre of stage entertainment in the Showa period. In the research project, I investigated the document about the light comedy with approximately 40 engines, mainly Tokyo, and had interviews with related people and bereaved families. I made the performance chronological table of some famous companies based on a primary document, and clarified the history of the company, a work tendency. Furthermore, I analyzed some works.
In the document which I discovered newly, there are a light comedy writer, Saburou Mizumori’s unpublished novel, diary, stage photograph, the letters from Harube Ima to a fellow trader in Kyusyu region, a comedian Keisuke Suzuki handwriting recollection notebook, the photograph "Royal-kan appearance" "postwar Moulins rouge Shinjuku-za appearance" "postwar Moulins rouge Shinjuku-za stage" "Nichigeki music hall stage" "Abuhachi-za stage".
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| Free Research Field |
演劇学
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