Comparative Study on the Cultural History of the Popular Art Movement in 1940/50s Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580034
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: International Research Center for Japanese Studies
• Principal Investigator: Tsuboi Hideto 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 教授 (90197757)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 民衆芸術運動 / サークル運動 / 日系移民 / 強制収容所 / 留用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

While integrating my research about the circle movements in the wartime and postwar Japan, I investigated about the activitiies of the popular art movements in overseas territories of Japan and the Internment Camps in the US and analyzed how both movements could be related each other. Regarding the latter movements, I made inverstigations a journal Heart Mountain Bungei published by the Japanese American people at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and another journal Tsuruoka published by the Japanese internees in the coal pit area of the district in northeastern China. By these investigations, the popular art movements crossing between the war-time and the after-war period can be repalced and estimated historically.

Free Research Field

日本近代文学・文化史