| 研究実績の概要 |
This year I have continued editorial work on "Pacific Gateways", a volume of essays on British travel writing to Japan and other Pacific countries in the long nineteenth century (co-edited with Tomoe Kumojima). I also acted this year as editorial consultant for a new edition of Kakuzo Okakura's "The Book of Tea" (1906), published in 2020 by PIE International. This book, originally written in English in Boston, did much to popularize Japanese tea culture in turn-of-the-century America and Britain.
In addition, this year I published two essays in edited collections exploring the history of Western travel writing on Japan. The first, "Satire Across a Sea of Islands: Japan and the Pacific in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels", appeared in "Pacific Insularity: Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific", edited by Michael Heitkemper-Yates and Thomas Schwarz (Rikkyo University Press, 2021). The second, “Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe and Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain”, appeared in "Handbook of British Travel Writing", edited by Barbara Schaff (De Gruyter, 2020).
I also wrote and submitted an article to a peer-reviewed edited collection, titled "Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy", exploring the origins of Protestant missionary writing on Japan in global context. This is expected to appear in "Robinson Crusoe in Asia", edited by Steve Clark and Yukari Yoshihara (Palgrave Asia-Pacific and Literature in English Series).
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| 現在までの達成度 (区分) |
現在までの達成度 (区分)
4: 遅れている
理由
As a result of the global coronavirus pandemic, I have had to cancel planned overseas research trips and conference attendance. Because of restrictions on entrance to Japan, it has also not been possible to hold the international conference on representations of Tokyo since the Meiji period that I had planned. Accordingly, I have applied to extend this JSPS award by one year.
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| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
This year I will finish editing a volume of essays titled "Pacific Gateways" (co-edited with Tomoe Kumojima), intended for the Palgrave Asia-Pacific and Literature in English series. Most of the essays are already received for this volume: I will contribute an essay on the British traveller Isabella Bird and her representations of Edo/Tokyo, presented in earlier form in the ACLA conference in 2018. I will also co-write the introduction to this volume (with Tomoe Kumojima).
I am also writing a separate article which will be submitted to an international journal, on British travellers' responses to the modernizing infrastructure of Yokohama and Tokyo (including steamships and the rail network) from 1870 - 1920. This will form part of an ongoing monograph project on representation of Japanese urban space in early Western travel writing, which I will complete after the award ends.
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| 次年度使用額が生じた理由 |
The reason that FY2020 balance has remained has been the coronavirus pandemic, which has restricted research travel and made it difficult to organize conferences and visiting speakers.
Funds will be used for essential computer equipment and office supplies, and for the purchase of books and e-books relating to the research topic. Funds will also be used for editorial costs relating to the publication of the "Pacific Gateways" volume, such as image permission rights, postage fees, open access fees, and the supply of copies to contributors. Kaken funds will also be used to attend domestic and overseas conferences, either online or in-person (depending on the coronavirus situation), such as NAVSA 2021 in Vancouver, and the JAER conference at Chuo University. I also hope to use kaken funds to carry out overseas research trips (including Hong Kong University), and to invite a visiting speaker to Sophia. However, this depends on the coronavirus situation, as currently (as of April 2021) international travel is still restricted. Funds which are unable to be spent for these purposes will be returned at the end of the award.
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