1988 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Politico-sociological Study of the Setsuyoshu in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	59450059
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Politics
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	YOKOYAMA Toshio Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University, 人文科学研究所, 助教授 (40027553)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HAMADA Masami Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, 経済学部, 助教授 (30109061) HIRATA Yumi Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University, 人文科学研究所, 助手 (60153326) MUGITANI Kunio Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University, 人文科学研究所, 助教授 (90114678)
Project Period (FY)	1984 – 1985
Keywords	Setsuyoshu / civilizing role / household encyclopedia / manners / wear and tear of books / holy book / dramscanner-computor analysis / 陰陽道
Research Abstract	1 It was in the 15th century japan that the setsuyoshu came into being as a handy japanese-chinese lexicon. Towards the end of the 17th century, setsuyoshu took the form of household encyclopedia which contained, besides the dictionary portion, various lists and guides for daily life. This project has been the first interdisciplinary study of the civilizing role played by those encyclopedic setsuyoshu which enjoyed broad circulation during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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