Exploring the Potential of Japanese Classics Studies: As a Theory of Transcultural Bias-ology

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580049
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: International Research Center for Japanese Studies
• Principal Investigator: ARAKI Hiroshi 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 教授 (60193075)
• Research Collaborator: UENO Katsuyuki
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 月の顔 / 言語のプライバシー / 『源氏物語』のインド性 / 世界文学観の歴史的考察 / 夢と文化表象 / 禅文化の近代的屈折 / 古典研究の国際的戦略

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aimed to explore the potential of Japanese culture and its original transcultural characters in classical literature. For that purpose, I excavated and analyzed the inner or virtual globalism in Japanese classics from diverse unique viewpoints, and tried to elucidate the peculiar “bias” in Japanese culture and its original reception histories of foreign cultures diachronically and find out some new images and potential presence in premodern Japanese literature. In that research process, I challenged to raise some great paradigm changes in the traditional methodology of Japanese literature and culture studies. To do so, I took up various topics in the projects, such as the face of the moon, the privacy of language, India-ness in the Tale of Genji, and so on. Finally, this project developed to connect with new JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (JP16K13198) “Basics and Strategies for International Japanese Studies Research in Classical Literature.”

Free Research Field

日本文学