2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Synthetic Study of "Tokyo Nichi-nichi Shimbun" in its early Meiji period.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23520232
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese literature
Research Institution	Yokohama City University
Principal Investigator	YAMADA SHUNJI 横浜市立大学, 都市社会文化研究科, 教授 (10244485)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	メディア史研究
Research Abstract	This study aims to examine the relation between newspaper and culture by making chronology of articles in "Tokyo Nichi-nichi Shimbun" from its first issue. The result is that there was a gap in terms of evaluating paintings between the period of cultural enlightenment and the period after the Domestic Exposition(Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai). It was the change in the evaluation of paintings from the realistic western canvas-oriented evaluation in the former period to the spiritual evaluation of traditional Japanese-style paintings in the latter period. Besides such phenomena of returning to classics as the establishment of classic course and the publication of Chinese classics oriented evaluation were also observed.