Modern Japanese Theatre Oral History Archive

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26284033
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Seikei University
• Principal Investigator: HIBINO KEI 成蹊大学, 文学部, 教授 (40302830)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 神山 彰 明治大学, 文学部, 専任教授 (20287882) ; 井上 優 明治大学, 文学部, 専任准教授 (20406797) ; 中野 正昭 明治大学, 文学部, 兼任講師 (40409727)
• Research Collaborator: OHARA Kaoru , 演劇編集者・ライター ; KAWAZOE Fumiko , 演劇編集者・ライター ; SUZUKI Rieko 元青山学院大学, 非常勤講師・演劇編集者・ライター ; TACHINO Taro 元大阪市立大学, 都市文化研究センター, 研究員・民俗芸能学会理事 ; HAKAMADA Kyoji , 演劇編集者・ライター ; WADA Naohisa , 放送作家・文筆家
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: オーラル・ヒストリー / 聞き書き / 商業演劇 / 新国劇 / 新派 / ミュージカル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have interviewed as many as 35 theatre practitioners, critics, and researchers who were mainly involved in Japanese commercial theatre. On average, an interview took two to four hours and its transcription is 20,000 to 40,000 2-byte character long. After the research collaborators edited and revised the interviews, and the principal Investigator as well as co-investigators checked and the interviewees approved them, we published them on our site, Japanese Modern Theatre Digital Oral History Archive (http://oraltheatrehistory.org). As a result, we demonstrated that a human network has been built around commercial theatre, not shingeki or angura theatre, which has contributed to creating common sensibilities that are shared by practitioners in all genres of Japanese theatre.

Free Research Field

演劇学