The study on the history of the Japanese-Chinese narrative literature from the ghost culture and the underworld representations

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370432
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in general
• Research Institution: Japan Women's University
• Principal Investigator: MITTA Akihiro 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (00277865)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 説話文学 / 鬼文化 / 冥界 / 太平広記 / 冥報記 / 日本霊異記 / 夷堅志 / 古事談

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is an attempt to integrate the history of the Japanese-Chinese narrative literature through the ghost culture and the underworld representations.
In "Story pattern of the ghost story in China", the type of the ghost story was presented.It was discussed that the ghost story was born from the Confucianism thought, and the ghost story invented the fox story in "The ghost culture and the Confucianism in the marriage story of the ghost " and "Fox story as the variation of the ghost story".It was discussed that the idea of the underworld of China is strongly influenced by the theory of destiny in "The relationship between the underworld story and Fate theory", "the Fate story in the Yijianji","the Fate story in the Kojidan". Finally, it was discussed that the succession of the underworld representations from China to the Japan in "The underworld representations in the Mingbaoji", "How did the Mingbaoji draw the politics of Zhenguan era" "From the Minbaoji to the Nippon ryouiki".

Free Research Field

和漢比較説話学