2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Japanese Interwar Travel Writing and Ocean Liners : Passage to Europe, Korea and the South Sea
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19320049
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Yokohama National University |
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Principal Investigator |
HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu Yokohama National University, 大学院・文学研究科, 准教授 (80334613)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMANAKA Yuriko 国立民族学博物館, 民族文化研究部, 准教授 (20251390)
NISHIHARA Daisuke 広島大学, 大学院・教育学研究科, 准教授 (70286110)
SUDO Naoto 立命館大学, 文学部, 准教授 (60411138)
LEE Kenji 県立広島大学, 人間文化学部, 准教授 (70329978)
SUZUKI Sadahiro お茶の水女子大学, 大学院・人間文化創生科学研究科, 准教授 (80334564)
OHIGASHI Kazushige 近畿大学, 語学教育部, 講師 (60434859)
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| Research Collaborator |
KOJIMA Yuri
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 比較文学 / トゥーリズム / 和辻哲郎 / 『風土』 / 日本郵船 / 欧州航路 / 朝鮮航路 / 南洋航路 |
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| Research Abstract |
A number of Japanese travelogues were published during the 1920s and the 1930s. They were closely related to the growing popularity of cruises, particularly the NYK (Nippon Yuken Kaisha) line sailing between Yokohama and London. Watsuji's well-known Fudo (Climate and Culture, 1935) was also largely based on his travel to Europe in 1927. Its environmental determinism, however oversimplified, articulated and endorsed the mental map of the Japanese interwar tourists to Europe, Korea and the South Sea. Watsuji's Fudo is critiqued as a discursive take on the Japanese mental map of the politicised world during this critical period of the 20th century.
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