Overall study about Kotsuboku and Kiboku in a Kanji cultural sphere

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02970
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: KONDO Hiroyuki 北海道大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (60322773)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小杉 康 北海道大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (10211898) ; 山際 明利 苫小牧工業高等専門学校, 創造工学科, 教授 (20249717) ; 石井 行雄 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60241402) ; 水上 雅晴 中央大学, 文学部, 教授 (60261260) ; 佐野 比呂己 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60455699) ; 橋本 裕行 奈良県立橿原考古学研究所, 企画部企画課, 課長 (80270776)
• Research Collaborator: HOSOI Hiroshi ; TSURUNARI Hisaaki
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 骨卜 / 亀卜 / 太占 / 弥生時代 / 周易 / 卜筮 / モグサ / 焼灼

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It was investigated, it was considered and a reproduction experiment was made about cauterization method of a scapula of a deer in Kotsuboku骨卜 (Futomani太占) in the Yayoi Era by this research.Investigation objects are Bokukotsu卜骨 of Tottori Aoya青谷 Kamizichi上寺地 remains unearthing,Bokukotsu卜骨 of Nara Karako-Kagi唐古・鍵 remains unearthing and Bokukotsu卜骨 of Nagasaki Ikishima壱岐島 unearthing.We got a clue from the description of "Seibokukou 正卜考 " written by Nobutomo-Ban伴信友.
A way of both of the way to bury a scapula of a deer in earth and the way to put it in water was tried.The way to cauterize the bone by moxa was considered.Using moxa and it was reproduced to choose a scapula of a deer as baking 2or3 points at the same time and control the crack which occurs to a bone.As a result of the reproduction experiment, we got a very similar cauterization scar to a cauterization scar of unearthing Bokukotsu卜骨.

Free Research Field

中国哲学