Cultural Considerations of Japanese Literary Works and Their Filmization Based on the Novels of Yasunari Kawabata

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370173
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Showa Women's University
• Principal Investigator: FUKUDA JUNKO 昭和女子大学, 人間社会学部, 准教授 (70218923)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 日本近代文学 / 川端康成 / 原作小説の映像化 / 原作小説のオペラ化 / アダプテーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I compared and analyzed original novels and their filmized works produced inside and outside Japan, based mainly on literary works of Yasunari Kawabata, and examined how cultural phenomena are projected in filmized works to consider the significance of filmizing literature. I collected foreign documents related to filmized works originated from modern Japanese literature and conducted research at movie-related museums as well as cinemas and theaters in Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Brussels. Furthermore, I conducted a questionnaire survey at an exhibition about Yasunari Kawabata and the screening of movies produced from his novels held at the Japan Cultural Institute in Paris. I also conducted interviews in Antwerp with the director and the composer who together produced an opera out of “House of Sleeping Beauties”, an original novel by Yasunari Kawabata, and have published the findings in academic journals and magazines.

Free Research Field

日本近現代文学