| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Kabuki texts may be classified into two groups. Those in the first group were found in the rental bookstores of the Edo period, and those in the other were found in the libraries in the Kabuki theatres. This research aims at the comparison of those two groups in hopes to shed light onto the history of Kabuki texts.
One most well known rental bookstores named Daiso which had many volumes of the Kabuki texts was in Nagoya area. It has been said that those text books were especially hand-copied (as was the case with all the books in those days) for the rental purpose. In this research, a special attention was given to the handwriting of the texts, and an investigation was conducted to arrive at the former owners of these texts. In the course of the investigation, it was discovered that some of the texts in the theatres somehow found their ways into the rental stores.
Out of the volumes of text books, those which carried the signature of Sime proved to be most promising in determining the former owner. I am, however, still unable to pinpoint the owner. On the other hand, I am getting bits and pieces of new information such as letters and memos, concening the signature holder. I hope to come up with a new perspective about classification and properties of the theatrical texts of Kabuki.
Furthermore, this research revealed the possibility of pinpointing when some of the texts came into the world. One typical discovery was to have come up with the oldest existing text of Kanadehonchusingura, and to know the period when it was handwritten.
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