2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Aristocratic and Warrior Reception of the Classics in the Age of "Matsukage nikki (In the Shelter of the Pine)" Cultural Commerce in the Edo Period
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15520115
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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 |
Japanese literature
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| Research Institution | SYUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAKAWA Yoko SYUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND BUSINESS, PROFESSOR, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (90296301)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAKAWA Yoko SYUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND BUSINESS, PROFESSOR (90296301)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. / Ogimachi Machiko / Matsukage nikki (In the Shelter of the Pine) / warrior's culture / aristocracy's culture / Waka culture / sect of Sanjyounishi Sanetaka / cultural commerce |
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| Research Abstract |
The "cultural commerce" of which this research treated-between the aristocracy(kuge) of the imperial court and the ruling warrior estate(buke)-is meant in the fullest sense of both words.
The aim of this research was to carry the story forward into the Edo period and the rule of fifth shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646-1709 ; r.1680-1709).I focused in particular on the relationships between Tsunayoshi's powerful chamberlain (sobayonin) Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (1658-1714), and the descendants of the great Muromachi period court literates and scholar of "The Tale of Genji", Sanjyounishi Sanetaka(1455-1537). For fortunately one of these descendants, Ogimachi Machiko (1678-1724), was Yoshiyasu's concubine (sokushitsu), and her Matsukage nikki (In the Shelter of the Pine, c.1710-14), was a detail record of Yoshiyasu's relationships with the court and the shogun that resonates throughout with borrowings and echoes of "The Tale of Genji". In this way I hoped to illustrate both the continuities with the past, which are often underestimated, and the creative potential of such cultural commerce, which-especially in the case of Yoshiyasu and his concubine Machiko-had so far received little attention.
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