2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study on Urban Place in the Poetry of Japanese Confucians of the Edo Era as a Theory of Place
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16560571
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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 |
Architectural history/design
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| Research Institution | Nippon Bunri University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMAOKA Seiji Nippon Bunri University, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (80196469)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | urban place / place / dwelling / poetry / Waki Ranshitsu / Hoashi Banri / Tanomura Tikuden / Hirose Kyokuso |
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| Research Abstract |
It is said that many intellectuals, such as Confucians or literary men (文人), had emerged from various social standings of Japan in the latter half of 18th century and they had laid the foundation of Japanese modernization after Meiji Era.
It is the purpose of this study to verify some changes of meaning to dwell in and outside urban place, by discussing the ideal of dwelling of these intellectuals who were born in Bungo district and moved frequently between his native place and big cities, through the analysis of their prose and poetry taking the secluded dwelling of Chinese ancients as an ideal. It could be characteristic as anti-politic (anti-urban) and self-sufficient place which would be rich with nature, having mountains in back and facing flowing water (背山臨水), and where being fictionally or literary constructed, one could reach the universal truth.
Compared with this ideal it is clarified that their provincial dwellings and their temporary dwellings in Kyoto had similar structure especially in relation with the nature (山水), but some of them seemed have lacked the completeness of its self-sufficiency and crossed with the intention to the big city. And in the case of Tanomura Tikuden, he idealized his dwelling in a way to dwell (to live) both in his native place (Tikuden's House) and in the urban place (Kyoto or Osaka). Furthermore the regard to active urban places of Hirose Kyokuso was distinguished from the fictional and Chinese-classical construction of dwelling in his early poetry. And then, his native place was sung as a lost and ideal dwelling quoting from Chinese ancients.
In these considerations, several aspects where the anti-urban intentions which would obtain the transcendental truth were complicated with the intention to the anonymous urban place are discussed
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Research Products
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