Study of Monogatari in the Heian Period that looked from the viewpoint of marriage research

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16H07204
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Japanese literature
Research Institution	University of the Sacred Heart
Principal Investigator	KOJIMA Asako 聖心女子大学, 文学部, 講師 (10781966)
Project Period (FY)	2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords	平安 / 物語 / 婚姻 / 国文学
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In this research, I conducted a study on marital rituals which was hardly progressing in the field of Japanese literature, taking in the results of historical studies. Firstly, I reviewed the outline of the marriage ceremony of Heian Period by examining the old records. Secondly, based on that, I considered the marital rituals depicted in Monogatari such as "Ochikubo Monogatari", "Utsuho Monogatari", "The Tale of Genji". Specifically, I analyzed the difference between historical fact and fiction and examined the fictional method of each story.