| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YUYAMA Kenichi Nara National Museum, 奈良国立博物館, the head curator (00300690)
NAGAMURA Makoto Japan Women's University, Faculty of Humanities, professor (40107470)
AYAMURA Hiroshi Kyoto Women's University, Faculty of Humanities, professor (20000507)
FUJII Joji Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, professor (40093306)
OTO Osamu Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, professor (20110075)
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| Research Abstract |
The object of this research is to establish the method to assign the date on cultural properties of paper materials (documents, classical books , the sacred teachings, drawings) which is not clearly written its manufactured date. The method is limited to one by the optical observation, that is, by unharmed investigation. To this end, we investigated the cultural properties, especially, the writing paper of original documents, going to the institution which are possessed to them. Main ones of them are 'Toji Hyakugo Monnjo", "Uesugike Monnjo" etc....They amount to about 10,000 in all. Also, about the writing paper of documents of before modern age, to ascertain whether those paper will actually be able to be made by the way our group assigned, we experimented in reproducing them in original state, in cooperation with the Kouch technical centre of the Paper Industry. One of them is reproducing of "Otakadannshi" by "Turiboshi" (=how to air them hanging), for example. And further, to consid
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er the relation between the paper of before "Tang age" (in China) and that of Nara age (in Japan), also between the paper of from "So" age (in China) and that of Japan, we visited China and Korea, and investigated the paper of documents and sacred teachings. The result is as follows: About Chinese paper we could confirm that the paper of the first half of "Kann" age (in China) is immature as materials to write on , but the method of making it, is the same as "Kami" (paper), and that the paper from "Sairinn" is good material to write on, also that the white and smoothness of "Sennshi" and bamboo paper from "So" age greatly influenced the production of paper from Edo age. On the subject of the change of Japanese ancient manuscripts and writing papers or something, we could grasp the characteristic writing paper of each age, from "Mashi" (cambric paper) in Nara age to "Otaka dannshi" in Edo period. And the writing paper of letters issued by Samurai in Kannto District in "Senngoku" period (warlike age), is singular to former ages, and we need to think over its effect on the production of paper in Edo period. These results can fully be used as the standard to assign the date of writing paper. Less
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