| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAKAUE Yasutoshi Faculty of Literature Kyushu University Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (30162275)
ARIMA Manabu Faculty of Literature Kyushu University Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (80108612)
KIKUTAKE Junichi Faculty of Literature Kyushu University Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (10000374)
NAKAMURA Tadashi Faculty of Literature Kyushu University Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50069457)
MACHIDA Saburo Faculty of Literature Kyushu University Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20005747)
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| Research Abstract |
1. Since details are available in the "Final Research Report" (Attachment 1), we limit ourselves here to a summary.
2. Given the current debate over internationalization, without hesitation, our basic research approach took as its purpose the situating, both regionally and academically, of relations between the historical development of international intercourse and regional society in the Kyushu and Okinawa areas.
3. Under the Principle Investigator, twenty-one people were divided into four groups by period or specialization. Each group engaged in cooperative research under an appointed leader. Research results were made available in the form of individual papers focused on the topic at hand.
4. The four groups investigated the following: (1) Group One examined, in a comprehensive manner based on archaeological and textual evidence from records kept on wooden tablets unearthed at Daizafu and regional government offices, the formation of East Asian legalistic states and connections with t
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he Kyushu region. (2) Group Two investigated the role of foreign trade and purveyors or cultural exchange associated with temples and shrines in the region from the Kamakura to the Warring States' period. Additional problems addressed were: Korean trade by samurai in western Japan through the So of Tsushima, the development of medieval Hakata, the entry or various Buddhist sects, and other problems. (3) Group Three discovered many new documents concerned with the establishment and dissolution of the bakuhan state and relations with European and East Asian exchange. These shed light on such problems as: Confucian scholars. Buddhist monks and early foreign relations, Satsuma han's Chinese interpreters, the social significance of Chinese and Western Studies, and the relevancy of smuggling in the production policies of the various domains, among other problems. (4) Group Four discovered and examined a wealth of new documentation related to, in particular, the activities of private groups and individuals on the Asian continent and in the South Pacific. Problems investigated included: trends among civil rights advocates and regional capitalists, content analysis of the Choya Shinbun and Kinki Hyoron, the farm movement, and foreign labor in the coal fields, among others. Less
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