Modern in Popular Culture of East Asia-Through the Art of "Girl's Opera"

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370115
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: HOSOI Naoko 立教大学, 異文化コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (40219184)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ITAYA Toru 沖縄県立芸術大学, 名誉教授 (20130867)
• Research Collaborator: HAMAGUCHI Kuniko ; KURAHASHI Shigeki ; CHIU Kun-liang ; Hsu Ya-hsiang ; JIAN Hsiu-Jen ; CHANG Chi-Feng ; LIN Yu-pin ; Hai Zhen ; HONG Younglim
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 東アジア / 娯楽市場 / 近代 / 少女歌劇系芸態 / 東京文化コード

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this project is to elucidate how "modernization" was realized in the entertainment market in East Asia, and how to reconstruct "own culture" in contact with "other culture". We considered "Japanese style girl's opera" performance focusing on one of the features of modernization that women and children appear as recreational consumers.By comparative analysis of the performances in East Asian area among various "Japanization" phenomenon, which is resulted from having covered with "modern Japan" under Japanese occupation, we found that the way of realization of "modern" in the East Asian entertainment market is a work of matching the own cultural code to "(provisional name) Tokyo Culture Code". We define that this "Tokyo Culture Code" is the one created in order to establish "Japan" as a modern state, by using Tokyo as a test site, and not the one as a successor to Edo culture.

Free Research Field

演劇学