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The Creation of a Next generation Hub for East Asian Classical Studies: Accelerating Research and Education through International Collaboration (FY 2015-18)

Research Scope and Topics

The goal of our research program on “East Asian Classical Studies” is to unravel and understand various aspects of East Asian classics with a primary focus on the act, as well as products, of writing in Chinese characters. We also aim to create a next-generation research hub on “East Asian Classical Studies” where younger generations of scholars in Japan, other parts of Asia, and North America can interact and work together to envision the future of “East Asian Classical Studies” and also feed what they have learned from each other back into graduate-level education at their home institutions. Our program will organize seminars and compile textbooks as concrete ways to perform collaborate research on the history of writing and literature spanning all of East Asia where Sinitic (classical Chinese) writing has spread, and to enhance graduate-level training in reading Sinitic texts for future scholars.

Our program is a continuation of an earlier research program titled “A Pragmatic and In-Depth Examination of East Asian Classical Studies: Research and Education through International Collaboration” (KAKENHI, 2012-2014, Principal Investigator: SAITO Mareshi). The idea for research and education centered around “East Asian Classical Studies” has its origins in an earlier research program titled “The Construction of Ancient Literature as East Asian Classical Studies” (KAKENHI, 2007-2010, Principal Investigator: KONOSHI Takamitsu). Our program aims to carry on the ideas and research framework of these earlier projects.

Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kaken)

“The Creation of a Next-Generation Hub for East Asian Classical Studies: Accelerating Research and Education through International Collaboration”
KAKENHI Grant Number: 15H01878

Members

Name: SAITO Mareshi
Affiliation: Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo
Research Field(s): Classical Chinese literature (primarily from the Six Dynasties to Tang and Song); language, literature, and publishing in late Qing China and Meiji Japan
URL: http://friday.skr.jp
http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/teacher/database/251.html
Publications: Researchmap
http://researchmap.jp/mareshi/

Name: TOKUMORI Makoto
Affiliation: Lecturer, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Research Field(s): Japanese literature and intellectual history; comparative literature and culture
URL: http://fusehime.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profs/
Publications: Researchmap
http://researchmap.jp/makotot/

Name: TAMURA Takashi
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Research Field(s): Classical Japanese literature (Heian literature; particularly, Genji monogatari, Utsuho monogatari, Murasaki shikibu nikki)
URL: http://fusehime.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profs/
Publications: Researchmap
http://researchmap.jp/tam/

Name: MICHISAKA Akihiro
Affiliation: Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Research Field(s): Classical Chinese literature, Japanese Sinitic literature (pianwen, Northern and Southern Dynasties and early Tang literature, Edo-period Japanese Sinitic literature)
URL: http://www.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/staff/242_michisaka_a_0_j.html
Publications: Researchmap
http://researchmap.jp/read0193145/

Name: KANAZAWA Hideyuki
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
Research Field(s): Ancient Japanese literature (Kojiki, Manyoshu, Motoori Norinaga, Kojikiden)
URL: http://www.let.hokudai.ac.jp/staff/3-4-03
Publications: Researchmap
http://researchmap.jp/read0114567/

A Pragmatic and In-Depth Examination of East Asian Classical Studies: Research and Education through International Collaboration(FY 2012-14)

Research Scope and Topics

The goal of this project was to reconstruct the history of East Asian classical literature by envisioning East Asia as a world of Chinese characters, through collaborative research by scholars specializing in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean classics. Also, the project sought to make current graduate-level education more international and interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars based in Japan, other parts of East Asia, and North America, who all participated in pragmatic discussions on finding better ways to conduct collaborative research across different disciplines and geographical locations. This program was a continuation of an earlier research program titled “The Construction of Ancient Literature as East Asian Classical Studies” (KAKENHI, 2007-2010, Principal Investigator: KONOSHI Takamitsu).

Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kaken)

“A Pragmatic and In-Depth Examination of East Asian Classical Studies: Research and Education through International Collaboration”
KAKENHI Grant Number: 24242011

Research Program Members

Name: SAITO Mareshi
Affiliation: Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo
Research Field(s): Classical Chinese literature (primarily from the Six Dynasties to Tang and Song); language, literature, and publishing in late Qing China and Meiji Japan
URL: http://friday.skr.jp
http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/teacher/database/251.html

Name: KONOSHI Takamitsu
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. Specially Appointed Professor, Meiji University.
Research Field(s): Ancient Japanese literature
URL: http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~jkodaken/jpn/member/gyoseki/t_kohnoshi.html

Name: TOKUMORI Makoto
Affiliation: Lecturer, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Research Field(s): Japanese literature and intellectual history; comparative literature and culture
URL: http://fusehime.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profs/

Name: TAMURA Takashi
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Research Field(s): Classical Japanese literature (Heian literature; particularly, Genji monogatari, Utsuho monogatari, Murasaki shikibu nikki)
URL: http://fusehime.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profs/

Name: KURODA Akira
Affiliation: Professor, Graduate School of Literature, Bukkyo University
Research Field(s): Japanese literature (war chronicles, setsuwa narratives, history of exegesis)
URL: http://www.bukkyo-u.ac.jp/about/teachers/detail/22/

Name: KANAZAWA Hideyuki
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
Research Field(s): Ancient Japanese literature (Kojiki, Manyoshu, Motoori Norinaga, Kojikiden)
URL: http://www.let.hokudai.ac.jp/staff/3-4-03

JODAI-BUNGAKU in East Asian Classics
http://fusehime.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eastasia/index.html