2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The personification of flora as seen in the Shuiluzhai ritual, Shuiluzhai-tu, and Jiebo-tu
Project/Area Number |
26580045
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Japanese literature
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Research Institution | Nagoya University |
Principal Investigator |
Ito nobuhiro 名古屋大学, 国際言語文化研究科, 助教 (90345843)
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Keywords | 鬼子母神 / 植物の擬人化 / 百鬼夜行 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The illustrations in these works construct a world of the dead complete with Confucian ancestral spirits, and deities from Daoism as well as from Buddhism, and personify all manner of existence, mountains and rivers, flora and fauna. These ritual texts record details about the relationship between the deity Kishimojin and the Buddha, as well as about seji offerings for Kishimojin. In jiebo-tu, which depicts scenes from setsuwa tales, the parivara of water, earth, and ether, as well as various flora and fauna, are presented as personified figures. This closely resembles the concept of somoku kokudo shikkai jobutsu depicted in Muromachi arts, indicating influences, particularly as regards the personification of flora. Moreover, various motifs depicted in the shuiluzhai-tu and jiebo-tu, and which later appear in Japan as visualized and personified flora, bear close resemblances to a variant of the illustrated handscroll Hyakki yagyo emaki.
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Free Research Field |
室町文芸
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