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[Article] An Obon Altar and a Medicine Chest : Considering "History" from Rescued Cultural Assets
Get PDFapplication/pdf文化財レスキューによって救出・保全処置をおこなった資料はどのような可能性を持っているのだろうか。本稿はそれについて博物館展示、とりわけ、国立歴史民俗博物館における展示を対象に考察し、それらが示す「歴史」について述べる。ここでは宮城県気仙沼市小々汐のオオイ（尾形家）とその周辺から救出した資料をその事例としてとりあげる。まず、盆棚については時間の進行に伴って、臨時に設営される先祖祭祀の施設であるが、家屋内でも仏壇とは別の部屋で、神棚と連続するかたちで設営されることが注目される。さらにそこには位牌以外に茶牌など寺檀制度とは異なる経緯によって持ち込まれた先祖祭祀の表象が掲げられる。このことは盆棚が、単なる年中行事の構成物ではなく、オオイという家における先祖祭祀をめぐる「歴史」が埋め込まれている存在であることを示している。次いで薬箱はオオイのみならず小々汐における医薬事情を示す存在で、遠隔地から売薬商によってもたらされた薬を常備するものであった。尾形家における薬とそれに類する医療伝承を併せて考察すると、健康の維持のためにさまざまな情報が集積されていたことをうかがうことができる。それらは日常生活のなかではそれほど意識されていなかったものの、薬箱とそれが収められていた箱階段のなかに封じ込められていた。改めて薬箱を軸にその記憶を確認すると、オオイという家が前近代からのさまざまな医療に関する知識や媒体を積み重ねていく役割を果たしていたことが判明する。これは健全な日常を維持するという生存戦略の「歴史」が薬箱と関連する知識の存在に表出していることを示している。そしてそれは小々汐をはるかに超える東日本一帯に及ぶ広い地域との交流に基づくものであった。定住生活の骨格ともいえるイエの生存・維持のための情報蓄積は、長年にわたる人と情報の移動によって支えられてきた「歴史」の産物であることを示している。What potential is held by resources rescued and preserved by cultural asset rescue? This report analyzes this question through museum exhibitions, in particular, exhibitions at the National Museum of Japanese History, and relates the "history" indicated by such resources. Here, resources rescued from the Oi household (Ogata residence) in Kogoshio, Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture and in its vicinity are considered as one case. First, bondana Obon altars are facilities set up temporarily for ancestral rites with the passage of time, but the fact that it is set up in a room inside the house different from the one housing the family Buddhist altar, adjoining the family Shinto altar, is worthy of note. In addition to the ihai Buddhist memorial tablet, emblems of ancestral rites not originating in the jidan temple-household affiliation system, such as a chahai memorial tablet, are displayed. This indicates that the Obon altar is not simply a component of an annual event but its existence is filled with the "history" of ancestral rites of the Oi household. Second, the medicine chest represents the pharmaceutical state of Kogoshio, not only Oi, that they had on hand medicines brought from far away by medicine merchants. Analyzing medicine found at the Ogata residence together with medical traditions of the kind, it can be observed that much information was accumulated for the maintenance of health. Though the information not so much in the consciousness of everyday life, it was contained in the medicine chest and the staircase chest containing it. Reviewing the collected memory with the medicine chest as the axis reveals that the Oi household had played the role of accumulating various knowledge and media related to medicine since premodern times. This indicates that the "history" of the survival strategy of maintaining a healthy daily life was made possible by knowledge related to the medicine chest. This was due to interaction with a large area of the entirety of East Japan, far beyond Kogoshio alone. This indicates that accumulation of information for the survival and maintenance of the household, which could be called the framework for settled life, was a product of "history" supported by the movement of people and information over a long period of time.departmental bulletin pape
[Article] Issues and Possibilities of Museum Exhibits of Earthquake Disaster Resources : Research to Build a Universal Mission for Disaster Resource Exhibit Facilities and its Significance
Get PDFapplication/pdf現在，日本国内においては巨大地震，大津波，巨大台風，低気圧などによる大規模自然災害が頻発する傾向が見られ，災害の記録，記憶を伝承する資料展示施設の社会的必要性が以前にも増して高まっている。しかし，その一方で同様の施設設置に係る基本的な理念，展示デザインの基本的な方法論は確立されておらず，設置された施設は管理運営，展示デザイン上の問題を多く抱えており，かつ，この状況を打開する具体的な試みが行われないままに新たな施設が設置されている。
本論においては，国内に存在する震災等の災害資料展示施設，類似施設を事例として，施設の設置段階，管理運営状況における問題，展示デザイン上の問題，課題を指摘し，その解決に向けた試みの事例として，リアス・アーク美術館常設展示『東日本大震災の記録と津波の災害史』設置に至る経緯を述べるとともに，同展示における展示手法を示し，あわせてその成果を基に，災害資料展示施設の存在意義と，設置の必要性を独自の視点から再定義しようとするものである。
「災害資料展示，災害資料系博物館などを設置し，管理運営していくための普遍的ミッションをどのように設定するのか，人知を超えた自然の営み，現象に対して人間は今後どのように向き合っていくべきなのか」。この問いに対する答えを求めることは，本論によって到達するべき究極的な目標であり，本来ならば，導き出される答えは同テーマを論じるための基盤とされるべき理念とも言える。リアス・アーク美術館においては，この問いに対する答えを，東日本大震災の経験を通して研究，模索し，記録，調査を継続しつつその成果を展示，公開することで具現化している。本論においてはその理念を一つの事例として提示し，既存の博物館，あるいは博物館学芸員等の研究者に普及することで，今後新たに設置される災害資料展示の社会的機能を適正化する道筋を示そうとするものである。Currently, in Japan, there is a trend of frequent large-scale natural disasters due to great earthquakes, large tsunamis, great typhoons, low atmospheric pressure, and other causes, and there is an increased social need for resource exhibit facilities to document the disaster and pass on the memory. However, a basic philosophy in establishing such facilities and a basic methodology of exhibit design have not been set, and established facilities have many problems in operation management and exhibit design. Further, additional facilities are being established without concrete attempts to resolve the situation.
This paper examines disaster resource exhibit facilities of earthquakes and other disasters and points out problems in the establishment phase and operation management of the facility and problems and issues in exhibit design. Additionally, it presents the case of Rias Ark Museum of Art's permanent exhibition Documentary of East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and History of Tsunami Disaster as an attempt at a solution, outlining the sequence of events leading up to its establishment and indicating the exhibition techniques used in this exhibition. Finally, this paper attempts to redefine the significance of the existence of disaster resource exhibit facilities and the necessity of establishing them, from a unique perspective based on the results arising from this exhibit.
"How will the universal mission be set for establishing disaster resource exhibits and disaster resource-related museums and managing their operation? How should humans go on to face works and phenomena of nature beyond human understanding?" Finding the answers to these questions is the ultimate goal to be attained by this paper, and it could be said that the answer arrived at is a philosophy which should be used as a base for debating this theme. At the Rias Ark Museum of Art, the answers to these questions are being made manifest through the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster as it is studied and explored, continued to be recorded and investigated, and the results are exhibited and made public. This paper presents that philosophy as one case and attempts to indicate a path to optimize the social function of new disaster resource exhibits to be established in the future by disseminating it to existing museums or researchers such as museum curators.departmental bulletin pape
The Militarization of the 1960s Student Movements : Analysis of Strategies and Tactics in the University of Tokyo Struggle
Get PDFapplication/pdf本稿では，1960年代に拡大・多発した学生運動（1960年代学生運動）について，先行研究が大規模社会変動にたいする反応や挑戦としてのみ位置づける傾向にあったのにたいし，より多面的かつ立体的な1960年代学生運動像を提示することをめざし，新たな視角として，社会運動論の戦略・戦術分析を導入する。具体的には，本稿では，1968～1969年に東京大学で発生した東大闘争における戦略・戦術を検討する。その結果，次のことが明らかになった。第一に，東大闘争では直接行動戦略がとられ，さらに，それが非暴力よりも対抗暴力を志向していったために，腕力・体力の有無と闘争での優劣や闘争参加資格とが連関するようになっていた。第二に，東大闘争終盤においては，対抗暴力が軍事的な実力闘争へと傾斜し，闘争の軍事化が見られた。第三に，1960年代学生運動の直接行動戦略が対抗暴力を志向するものとなった要因には，新旧左翼運動が持っていた実力闘争志向や武装主義と，アジア，アフリカ，ラテンアメリカにおける脱植民地・独立運動に影響を受けた第三世界主義とがあった。
また本稿では，今後の展開可能性として，軍事的男性性概念の導入によって，ジェンダー的観点からなされてきた1960年代学生運動論と本稿の知見が接続しうることを示す。ジェンダー的1960年代学生運動論では，1960年代学生運動における性別役割分業や女性性の周辺化が1970年代以降の女性解放運動に与えた影響にかんする知見が蓄積されてきた。軍事的男性性という観点から，1960年代学生運動における女性参加者の動機や経験にアプローチすることによって，1960年代学生運動の軍事化とそれが運動の展開過程にもたらした影響について，さらに新たな光を当てることが可能になるだろう。This paper aims to present a more multifaceted and three-dimensional image of the student movements that were frequent and widespread in the 1960s, especially given the tendency of past research to positioning them solely as responses or challenges to large-scale social changes. To this end, this paper analyzed the strategies and tactics evinced in the social movements theories as a novel approach to the 1960s student movement. This paper particularly examines the strategies and tactics employed during the University of Tokyo Struggle that occurred between 1968 and 1969 at the University of Tokyo. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, direct action strategies were adopted in the University of Tokyo Struggle, which were inclined more toward counter-violence than non-violence. Thus, one's physical strength or stamina, his relative merits in the struggle, and his eligibility to participate in the conflict were linked. Second, in the final stages of the University of Tokyo Struggle, the counter-violence tilted toward a competent military battle, and the participants' practices was militarized. Next, two factors led the direct action strategy in the 1960s student movements to counter-violence. One was the tendency toward physical combats and militarization possessed by both new and old leftist movements, and the other was the participants' third worldism that was influenced by decolonization and independence endeavors that occurred in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
This paper further demonstrates that these findings could also contribute to the gender studies on the 1960s student movement by introducing the concept of military masculinity. The gender-based division of labor and the marginalization of women in the 1960s student movements exerted substantial influence on the women's liberation movement that began in the 1970s. Studies of the 1960s student movements from the perspective of gender theories have accumulated a body of knowledge that attest to this reality.
The information contained in this paper can potentially be developed in several directions in the future. By approaching the motivations and experiences of the women participants in the 1960s student movements from the perspective of military masculinity, it will be possible to further illuminate the militarization of the 1960s student movements and the influence of such actions on the evolution of the movements.departmental bulletin pape
[Research Materials] Nihon University Struggle : Interviews with Hisaaki Oba, Yuichi Mori, Norifumi Ikegami and Makoto Seimiya
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[Article] Tono City and the Cultural Property Rescue Network : in the no Man's Land between Volunteer Work and Civil Service, and between being Affected by and Aiding in a Disaster
Get PDFapplication/pdf本稿は，一地域の博物館職員の視点から見た文化財レスキューネットワーク論である。岩手県遠野市の博物館職員であった筆者には，業務を通じて三陸沿岸市町村の文化財担当者や県内外の博物館学芸員と公的・私的なネットワークがあった。筆者は，東日本大震災の際に地震によって被害を受けた遠野市役所の文化財レスキューを行った後に，三陸沿岸自治体の図書館博物館文化財レスキューを行った。
筆者が，私的ネットワークと公的ネットワークと交互に駆使して文化財レスキューを行った結果，重層的なネットワークが形成された。さらにそのネットワークが，2016年に筆者の勤務する遠野市立図書館博物館所蔵資料が台風10号で被災した際の資料レスキューで再起動し，新たなネットワークが構築されていったことを述べる。
また，岩手県上閉伊郡大槌町から救済した資料の中に，昭和8年三陸津波で遠野市の災害支援をした歴史を示す貴重な発見があったことにも言及する。This thesis is an examination of cultural property rescue networks, viewed from the perspective of one region in Japan. Tono, in Iwate Prefecture, had a historical network with the municipalities of the Sanriku Coast, and also had public and private networks with museums and curators in the prefecture. Although Tono was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, cultural property rescue activities were successfully carried out along the Sanriku Coast.
My involvement with cultural property rescue work evolved over time from personal networks, to public networks, and again returned to private networks. Among the materials rescued from the town of Otsuchi was a precious discovery that revealed disaster relief efforts in Tono City after the Sanriku Tsunami disaster of 1933. The network that was cultivated through the Great East Japan Earthquake was able to rescue materials in Tono, damaged by typhoon #10, in 2016, and a new network was established.departmental bulletin pape
[Article] Creating a Basis for a Dynamic Grasp of Annual Events : For Organizing Multiple Resources by Hierarchy and Concurrency
Get PDFapplication/pdf本稿は，文化財レスキューで見出された昭和初期の日記資料を端緒として，複数資料を用いた民俗文化の編年的記述の再構成に必要な手続きを提示することを目的とする。以下では特定地域の複数の文献資料を重ね合わせることで，各々の資料の特質を理解しつつ，データの階層化と並列化を促進したいと考えている。
これまで市町村や都道府県など広範囲での周年の行事は把握されており，各地の博物館・資料館の報告書や自治体史のレベルで，年中行事に関するデータは蓄積されてきた。これら特定の時代に特定の地域で収集された資料は，他の資料との比較や関連付けによって初めて意味をなす。各地域に蓄積された大量のデータについても，総合的な運用に向けた議論が行われてしかるべきである。しかし，それらの資料を単純に横並びにすることが，必ずしも年中行事の全体的な把握につながるわけではない。これらの資料には編者の目的や関心，あるいは調査対象の広がりによって種々の偏りや精粗が見られるからである。
そこで本論は，宮城県気仙沼市小々汐地域における年中行事に関する調査報告事例を対象として，報告間の偏りを整序するための並列化と階層化に向けての課題を提示し，具体的な作業工程を例示する。この作業から得られるデータは，地域の民俗文化の継起的な変容過程についての基礎資料となるだろう。民俗文化における変化の多寡，具体的な変化の内実，変化を促す諸要因を検証するための資料としても重要である。This report uses a diary resource found in cultural asset rescue as a starting point to present the procedures necessary for reconstituting chronological descriptions of folk culture using multiple resources. Below, the intent is to compare multiple documented resources of a specific area to facilitate the organization of data by hierarchy and concurrency while understanding the attributes of each resource.
Annual events on a large scale such as municipalities and prefectures have been recognized, with data on annual events having been accumulated in reports of local museums and resource centers or in records at the local government level. This kind of resource, collected in a certain region over a certain time, gains significance only when compared to or related to other resources. There should be a discussion for the comprehensive use of the great amount of data accumulated in each area. However, simply laying out those resources next to each other will not necessarily lead to an overall grasp of annual events.
This is because various biases or variation in the degree of detail can be seen among these resources, depending on the compiler's objective or interest or the scope of investigation. For this reason, this report examines the case of the survey report of annual events in the Kogoshio region of Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, presents the issues encountered in arranging data by concurrency and hierarchy to account for the biases among reports, and provides a concrete example of the work process. The data obtained from this work will become a basic resource of the sequential change process of the folk culture of the area. It is also vital as a resource to inspect the degree of changes in folk culture, the facts of specific changes, and the various factors which induce change.departmental bulletin pape
The Problem of Disciplinary Punishment at the Department of Literature in the Final Stages of the University of Tokyo Struggle and the Assumed Proposal of Blank Slate
Get PDFapplication/pdf東大紛争大詰めの1968年12月23日，加藤一郎総長代行が全学共闘会議に最後の話し合いを申入れ，懸案の文学部処分の「白紙還元」を提案したのに，全共闘は話し合いを拒否したという説がある。事実ではないが，その当否を検討するためにも，文学部の学生がなぜ処分されたのか，その「白紙撤回」を全共闘はなぜ要求しつづけたのか，1969年1月18，19日の機動隊導入による安田講堂の攻防は避けられなかったか，1969年12月まで文学部だけ紛争が長引いたのはなぜかを考察する。
東大紛争における文学部処分とは，1967年10月4日の文学部協議会の閉会後，文学部学生仲野雅（ただし）が築島裕（ひろし）助教授と揉みあいになり，ネクタイをつかんで暴言を吐いたとして無期停学処分を受けたことである。当時の山本達郎文学部長は，12月19日の評議会で，仲野の行為を複数教官に対する「学生にあるまじき暴言」として誇大に説明して処分を決定し，一か月後に事実を修正したが伏せた。1968年11月就任の林健太郎文学部長は，同月上旬の軟禁時以外は，仲野と築島の行為の事実を議論せず，教師への「非礼な行為」という説明を維持した。1969年8月就任の堀米庸三文学部長は，9月5日，仲野処分を消去するとしたが，処分は適法だったと主張しつづけ，築島の先手の暴力という事実を指摘されても軽視した。
この文学部処分は，不在学生が処分された点で事実誤認が明らかになった医学部処分とともに東大紛争の二大争点であり，後者が1968年11月に取消されたのちは，最大の争点だった。加藤執行部は，12月23日，文学部処分について「処分制度の変更の上に立って再検討する用意がある」と共闘会議に申入れたが，林文学部長らが承認する見込みはなかったし，共闘会議から拒否された。「白紙還元」の提案と言えるものではなかった。On December 23, 1968, at the final stages of the University of Tokyo Struggle, Acting President Ichiro Kato requested the All-Campus Joint Struggle Student League (Zenkyoto) to come to the table for a final discussion. It is assumed that he proposed a "blank slate" on the issue of student suspension from the Department of Literature, but the League rejected this discussion. This assumption is not true. The author investigate the reasons why a student was suspended from the Department of Literature, why the League continued to demand a "complete revocation" of that suspension, whether or not the riot police's battle against students at Yasuda Auditorium on January 18 and 19, 1969 could have been avoided, and why the struggle was prolonged up to December 1969 only at the Department of Literature.
The problem of disciplinary punishment at the Department of Literature during the University of Tokyo Struggle finds its roots in the indefinite suspension of Tadashi Nakano, a Department of Literature student who got into a scuffle with Associate Professor Hiroshi Tsukishima and grabbed the professor by his necktie and hurled violent words at him after the concluding meeting of the conference of students and professors at the Department of Literature on October 4, 1967. In the University Council, then Dean Tatsuro Yamamoto of the Department of Literature, exaggeratedly described Nakano's behavior as the usage of "violent language unworthy of a student" that was directed against some teachers, and decided to punish him. This statement was revised a month later but the modification has not been disclosed. Dean Kentaro Hayashi, who assumed office at the Department of Literature in November 1968, did not discuss the detailed facts of Nakano and Tsukishima's action, except for being placed under classroom arrest earlier in the same month, and maintained the official assertion of " impolite behaviour" by the student against the teacher. Professor Yozo Horigome, who took on the role of the Dean of the Department of Literature in August 1969. erased Nakano's suspension, but continued to claim that the suspension had been lawful and disregarded the fact that Tsukishima was the first to act violently.
The disciplinary punishment at the Department of Literature was the second of two contentious issues of the University of Tokyo struggle. The first was the disciplinary punishment at the Department of Medicine that turned to be an erroneous punishment of an absentee student. After thisdepartmental bulletin pape
The Chronology of the Settlements of Early Mahan Period in the Upstream Area of the Yeongsan River and its Significance : Focusing on the Stages of the Hard Mumun Pottery (Part II)
Get PDFapplication/pdf本稿では，栄山江上流地域において，馬韓初現期に比定できる硬質無文土器段階の集落の編年と意義について検討した。まず，この段階の典型的な複合遺跡である海南郡谷里貝塚出土の土器について，これまでの研究成果に基づきながら，編年案を提示した。次に，近年議論が盛んな原三国時代の住居址の実態について，1～3段階の硬質無文土器の段階ごとに検討を行った。
1段階は硬質無文土器が三角形粘土帯土器と共伴する段階で，紀元前1世紀～紀元前後の時期と推定した。松菊里型住居址が退化した無施設型の住居址が，光州地域を中心に営まれるようになる。2段階は硬質無文土器単純期であり，紀元前後～2世紀中頃と推定した。円形，方形，楕円形などの住居址の平面形があり，竪穴群がある程度群集し，溝状遺構なども確認される。注目できるのは，中心的な居住空間である平洞遺跡と，対外交易の中心地たる新昌洞遺跡の存在である。おそらく，これらの遺跡が位置する地域が様々な文物を外部から受容し，それを周辺部へ拡散させる中心的な役割を担ったと考えられる。
3段階は硬質無文土器が打捺文土器と共伴し，典型的な三国時代住居址の内部から出土する時期であり，紀元後2世紀中頃～4世紀代と推定した。いまだ，硬質無文土器の資料は，光州や潭陽を中心とした集落遺跡からの出土がほとんどであり，周辺地域の資料が不足している。それゆえに，当該期の集落の景観や，より具体的な伝播過程についての研究には限界がある。しかしながら，今後の調査によって資料がより蓄積されれば，研究が急速に進展する可能性は高い。In this paper, I examined the chronology of the settlements of the hard Mumun pottery period in the upstream area of the Yeongsan River, which is identifiable as the early period of Mahan, and its significance. First, I presented a suggestion of the chronology of the earthenware excavated from the shell mounds of the Haenum Gungok-ri Mausoleum (Hanyang-gun), a typical compound ruin of this period, based on the existing research results. Next, I examined each of the three stages of hard Mumun pottery in regard to the actual condition of the residential sites of the Three Kingdoms period, which has been a popular topic for discussions in recent years. In the first stage, hard Mumun pottery coexisted with the triangular clay band pottery, and I estimate it to be from around the first century B.C. to A.D. 1. This is when the settlement sites of a non-facility type, which were a degenerated form of the Songguk-ri settlement sites, were constructed mainly in the Gwangju area. The second stage is the simplified period of the hard Mumun pottery, and I estimate it to be from around A.D. 1 to the middle of the second century. This is when the plane figures of the residential sites were circular, rectangular, oval, etc.; the groups of pits clustered to a certain extent and the remains of grooves are recognizable. What is noticeable is the existence of the Hon-dong ruins, which were the central living space, and the Shinchang-dong ruins, which were the center of foreign trade. It is thought that the location of these ruins probably played a central role in the assimilation of various cultures from outside and in spreading them to the surrounding areas. The third stage is the period when the hard Mumun pottery was excavated alongside the textile-printed pottery from typical settlements of the Three Kingdoms period, and I estimate it to be from around the mid-second to the fourth century A.D. The materials of the hard Mumun pottery are still mostly excavated from the settlement sites centered on Gwangju and Damyang, and there is a lack of materials concerning the surrounding areas. Therefore, there is a limit in doing research on the landscape of the settlements of this period and the process of the propagation in more detail. However, if more data is accumulated through future surveys, there is a high possibility that the research will progress rapidly.departmental bulletin pape
[Article] The Development of Diary Research in Folkloristics and Its Potential
Get PDFapplication/pdf本稿は，民俗学における日記資料に基づく研究成果を概観し，その位置づけを再考することを目的とする。民俗学による日記資料の分析は，いくつかの有効性が指摘されてきた。例えば日記資料は，聞き取りが不可能な過去の民俗文化を再現するための有効な素材である。とりわけ長期間にわたって記録された日記は，民俗事象の継起的な持続と変容を検証するうえでも，重要な資料とみなされる。さらに通常の聞き取りではなかなか明らかにし得ない定量的なデータ分析にも，日記資料は有用であると述べられている。
確かにこのような目論見のもとに多くの研究が行われ，一定の成果が見られたことは間違いない。ただし日記を含めた文字資料の利用は，民俗学に恩恵だけをもたらしてきたとは，一概にはいえない。文字資料への過度な依存は，民俗学が担ってきた口承の文化の探求とそこで紡がれる日常的実践への回路を閉ざしかねないだろう。
そこで本稿では，これまで民俗学が，日記資料とどのように向かい合ってきたのかを問い直すことにしたい。民俗学者が，日記資料からどのようなテーマを抽出してきたのか，また，それらはどのような手順を踏むものだったのか，そこでの成果は，民俗学に対して，どのような展開をもたらし得るものであったのかを検証していく。
これらの検証を通して，本論では日記研究自体が内包していた可能性を拡張することで，民俗学の外延を再構成し，声の資料と文字資料との総合的な分析の可能性を指摘した。The aim of this report is to provide an overview of results of research based on diary resources in folkloristics and to reconsider its place. Several ways analysis of diary resources in folkloristics is effective have been pointed out. For example, diary resources are effective materials for reproducing folk culture of the past for which interviews are impossible to conduct. In particular, diaries which were recorded over a long period of time are considered important resources in investigating the sequential continuity and transformations of folk phenomena. Diary resources have also been called useful for quantitative data analysis which is quite difficult to discover from ordinary interviews.
It is true that much research has been done based on such prospects and a certain amount of results have been attained. However, a sweeping statement that the use of written sources including diaries has only benefited folkloristics would be untrue. Excessive dependence on written resources is likely to close off the search for culture passed down orally, which has been the role played by folkloristics, along with the cycle of searching in daily life, which is woven by folkloristics.
Thus, the writer's intent with this report is to readdress the relationship folkloristics has had with diary resources. This report investigates what kind of themes folklorists have extracted from diary resources, as well as what procedures were followed and what sort of developments such results caused in folkloristics.
Through such investigations, this report restructures the denotation of folkloristics and points out the potential for comprehensive analysis of vocal resources and written resources by expanding on the connoted potential of diary research itself.departmental bulletin pape
