1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Property and Function in a Traditional Local Culture : Around the Case of Hitoyama Kabuki in Shodo-Jima.
Project/Area Number |
09610178
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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Research Institution | Kobe University |
Principal Investigator |
ONO Mitchikuni Kobe University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20067862)
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Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1998
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Keywords | Expressive Culture / Rural Kabuki / Hitoyama Kabuki / Rotation System / Community / Reciprocity / Tourism / Sociology of Culture |
Research Abstract |
This project attempts to elucidate an immanent structure and a cultural-social function of the Local Rural Kabuki (or the Farmers' Kabuki) which may be regarded as one of "transformations" of the Metropolitan Kabuki as expressive culture. Hitoyama Kabuki will be chosen for a case study. It is said that Hitoyama Kabuki has been transmitted from generation to generation 300 years before in Hitoyama district, Shodo-Jima Kagawa-Ken. Our research results as follows. 1. As a historical fact, Hitoyama Kabuki was a dedicatory Kabuki to Gods of Hitoyama Rikyu Yahata Shrine. It was one of transformations of the Professional Urban Kabuki and it is thought to be a mix of the Urban Kabuki Drama, and the Folk Manners and Customs. 2. Hitoyama Kabuki has a Dual Structure with two aspects : the religio-ritual and the theatrico-recreational. This seems to show that this Kabuki is a dramatic and symbolic expression of common value and identity of the community. 3. Hitoyama Kabuki's public performances are produced and managed by 6 Kumi (neighbourhood groups) through in a rotation system. And the open air gallery is also put to use in rotation. Here we can find "Communal Equality" and "Reciprocity as rondo", which are functional for an integration of the community. 4. Hitoyama Kabuki, viewed from a different angle, seems to be undergoing some changes by several external influences, such as a farm retirement and a tourism, etc. 5. From the above findings, it will be suggested that we could emphasize an relative autonomy of cultural factors from social factors in analyzing socio-cultural phenomena.
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