The linguistic studies on the falconry books owned by Inperial Household Liblary

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520517
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Kobe Women's University
• Principal Investigator: MIHO Tadao 神戸女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (60093811)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 鷹詞 / 鷹書 / 鷹狩 / 日本放鷹文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are 737 falconry books owned by the Imperial Household Library. 639 of those were donation boooks from the Matsue feudal clan donated it to the study. The falconry books are possessed to some libraries or some historical materials building of each place of Japan, too. I investigated such books as much as possible. And I classified them as follows and analyzed it in detail. In other word, it is 1).court nobles, 2).samurai family of the Middle Ages, 3).falconer of official affairs, 4).falconer of the Matsue feudal clan, 5).others.
I analyzed falconer's teminology and considered significance as the Japanese data for the study.

Free Research Field

日本語学