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Development of the Next Generation of East Asian Classical Studies through International Collaboration: From the Perspective of the Frontier of the Realm of Chinese Characters (FY 2019-23)

Research Scope and Topics

In this research, in regard to the “East Asian Classical World” formed on the Chinese continent, Korean peninsula, Japanese archipelago, and Indochina peninsula among others, we put into perspective the aspects or boundaries created by the realm of literacy through Chinese characters, that is to say “the frontier of the realm of Chinese characters.” While examining various phenomena—including other types of written expression outside of kanji such as kana and hangul—we will illuminate the structure of the realm of characters and the mechanisms for its creation. In addition, by holding seminars that consider international collaborative discussions on research as well as training the next generation of scholars and creating textbooks, we will visualize methods of “East Asian Classical Literature,” and allow for its continued development as an area of study where international collaboration and the inheritance by the next generation of scholars are possible.

This program is a continuation of “The Creation of a Next generation Hub for East Asian Classical Studies: Accelerating Research and Education through International Collaboration,” (KAKENHI, 2015-2018, principal investigator: Saitō Mareshi) as well as “A Pragmatic and In-Depth Examination of East Asian Studies: Research and Education through International Collaboration” (KAKENHI, 2012-2014, principal investigator: Saitō Mareshi) research programs. Furthermore, the research and education concept of “East Asian Classical Studies” is based on an earlier research program titled, “The Construction of Ancient Literature as East Asian Classical Studies,” (KAKENHI, 2007-2010, principal investigator: Kōnoshi Takamitsu) and our research also inherits its philosophy and concept.

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

Development of the Next Generation of East Asian Classical Studies through International Collaboration: From the Perspective of the Frontier of the Realm of Chinese Characters
KAKENHI Grant Number: 19H00528

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/
Name
BABA Sayuri
Affiliation
Assistant Professor, Teikyō University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Japanese Culture
Research Field(s)
Ancient Japanese literature
URL
https://www.e-campus.gr.jp/staffinfo/public/staff/detail/3289/21
Publications
Researchmap
https://researchmap.jp/bbsyr/

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)

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)

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