Overall Research and Establishing of Materials on the Ancient Calligraphy in the Limestone Caverns in Guangxi Province China
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17520231
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Shimane University |
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Principal Investigator |
TOSAKI Tetsuhiko Shimane University, Law and Literature, Professor (40183876)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,610,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
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| Keywords | Guilin / calligraphy / mural writing / Dayan / Ludiyan / Ming- Oing Dynasty / limestone cavern / ethnic minority / 史料学 / 『桂海虞衝志』 / 古代墨書跡 / 摩崖石刻 |
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| Research Abstract |
Guilin in Guangxi Province in China is renowned as beautiful landscapes and ancient inscriptions carved on parks. However, a lot of valuable calligraphy left on the rock in limestone caverns is not well known, but also only a few scholar research studies have so for been made of the calligraphies. Thus, I have conducted overall research for the mural calligraphy, which to my knowledge has never been surveyed. From field investigations and detailed analyses, the following results were obtained. 1. Most mural calligraphies are in two caverns named Ludiyan and Dayan. The one in Ludiyan almost vanished with the development of tourism. Another one in Dayan exists even now, but many pieces have been scrawled over in recent years. 2. The existing amount of calligraphy is 93 pieces by the official report in the 1960s, or 95 pieces by a later authoritative paper, but it was found from my surveys that there are more than 140 pieces at this time. The oldest one in existence is not the piece written in 1084 (Yuanfeng 7 in the Song dynasty) which is widely alleged, but a piece written in 1410 (Yongle 8 in the Ming dynasty) according to its confirmable age. 3. The writers in Ludiyan were visitors or tourists such as government officials or Buddhist monks in many pieces. On the other hand, the writers in Dayan were the villagers who lived at the base of the mountain. 4. Those differences reflect the content and format of their calligraphies. The writings in Ludiyan broadly are brief, like a sign as a travel record, but the writings in Dyan mainly are articles of serious events occurred in Guilin or Guangxi 5. Generally, as an original source, the calligraphy is more valuable than the inscription. Therefore, Dayan's calligraphies offer many materials for research on a lot of fields like history, literature, linguistics, folklore, the character study, dialectology, geography, and climatology.
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