A General Study on the Kabuki and Wars

• Project/Area Number: 18K12295
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 02010:Japanese literature-related
• Research Institution: Meiji University (2020); Shirayuri College (2018-2019)
• Principal Investigator: Hioki Takayuki 明治大学, 情報コミュニケーション学部, 専任准教授 (70733327)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000); Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: 歌舞伎 / 演劇 / 戦争 / 明治時代 / 錦絵

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project focused on the relationship between the kabuki and the wars that Modern Japan experienced. Both of the works which described the wars directly and the impact of the wars on the environment around the kabuki were investigated. And it was revealed that the process of reuse of the representations of wars in the modern kabuki, the similarity to the war representations in other genres of art. In addition to that, "The Collection of the War Plays of the Meiji Era" was made as a result of this project and this includes the transcription of four important war plays in the Meiji Era and the commentary.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

歌舞伎と戦争との関係については、近年ではJames Brandon氏が日中戦争、アジア・太平洋戦争期の戦争劇・軍事劇について詳細に論じている一方で、明治維新期以来の近代日本の戦争と歌舞伎との関係を通史的に論じる試みは稀である。本研究ではそうした観点から明治以降の歌舞伎と戦争の関係について、作品内容と興行環境の両面から論じることを試みた。その成果は、今後刊行予定のものも含め複数の論考に結実し、伝統演劇である歌舞伎の見過ごされがちな一面を明らかにした。また未翻刻であった複数の明治期の戦争劇を翻刻することで、絵画・小説等隣接領域における戦争表象の研究にも資することが期待される。

Research Products

• [Presentation] 明治～大正期の演劇／演芸と近代小説の編成──メディア間の相互交渉とアダプテーションの視点から (2019)
  • Author(s): 大橋崇行, 柳瀬善治, 神林尚子, 日置貴之
  • Organizer: 日本近代文学会2019年度秋季大会
• [Presentation] The Losers in the late 19th-century Kabuki Plays (in the panel “Mobility and Periphery in pre-modern Japan: Theatre as Social Media”) (2018)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Hioki
  • Organizer: International Federation for Theatre Research
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 戦争・災害・能の模倣：明治歌舞伎の伝統 (Les guerres, les catastrophes et l'imitation du no: la tradition du kabuki de L’ere Meiji) (2018)
  • Author(s): Takayuki Hioki
  • Organizer: La tradition theatrale en France et au Japon: reflextions croisees sur les mises en scenes contemporaines du theatre baroque et le Kinoshita Kabuki
  • Invited
• [Book] 明治期戦争劇集成 (2021)
  • Author(s): 日置貴之（編）
  • Total Pages: 376
  • Publisher: 私家版
• [Remarks] 『明治期戦争劇集成』（明治大学学術成果リポジトリ）
  • URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10291/21580
• [Funded Workshop] La tradition theatrale en France et au Japon: reflextions croisees sur les mises en scenes contemporaines du theatre baroque et le Kinoshita Kabuki (2018)