2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The study of the historical consciousness on a "Yomihonn" in the middle of Edo period.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20720054
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Japanese literature
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	MIURA Ichiro Tohoku University, 大学院・文学研究科, 助教 (70466514)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2009
Keywords	日本近世文学 / 日本思想史 / 日本史 / 歴史意識 / 読本 / 軍書 / 通俗史書
Research Abstract	This study aimed to review the historical consciousness in the middle of Edo period that has been treated as a blank in the history of Japanese historical science. For this purpose, this study focused on the historical consciousness on a "Yomihonn" works in the mid-Edo period, and made it clear that there were a kind of historical consciousness that have noted past common people, who have no name in history, who had to live in a severe and absurd life like a war. This kind of historical consciousness is distinctly different from a nationalistic or ethical one as a generally accepted idea of the historical consciousness in the Edo period. This result will help to relativize and to correct a generally accepted idea of the historical consciousness in the Edo period.

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