Modern Buddhism and youth: Chikazumi Jokan and his age

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: Osaka Kyoiku University
• Principal Investigator: Iwata Fumiaki 大阪教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (00263351)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Ōmi Toshihiro 龍谷大学, アジア仏教文化研究センター, 研究員 (80710813) ; IWATA Mami 龍谷大学, 文学部, 講師 (90610642) ; YOSHINAGA Shin'ichi 舞鶴工業専門高等学校, 人文学科, 教授 (90271600) ; TANIGAWA Yutaka 京都大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (10362401)
• Research Collaborator: Christopher Harding
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 近代仏教 / 真宗 / 清沢満之 / 阿闍世コンプレックス / 嘉村礒多 / 宮沢トシ / 三木清 / 武内義範

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project “Modern Buddhism and youth: Chikazumi Jōkan and his age,” organized by Iwata Fumiaki (Representative), Omi Toshihiro, Tanigawa Yutaka, Yoshinaga Shin’ichi and Iwata Mami, has successfully revealed the relationship between Japanese intellectuals history and Buddhist history. We have analyzed approximately ten thousand documents including correspondences found in Kyudo-Kaikan, the missionary precinct of Chikazumi’s, which have proved Jōkan’s influences on contemporary intellectuals; psychoanalyst Kosawa Heisaku, novelist Kamura Isota and poet Miyazawa Kenji and philosopher Miki Kiyoshi

Free Research Field

宗教学