A Study of the Formation of African Images in Japan

日本非洲形象的形成研究

基本信息

批准号：
07801076
负责人：
FUJITA Midori
金额：
$ 1.28万
依托单位：
Tohoku University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1995
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1995 至 1996
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The history of relations between Japan and Africa dates back to the sixteenth century. According to Portuguese sources, some Africans were brought to Japan in the late 1540s. But it was after the Meiji Restoration that Japan's relations with Africa bacame close.This research was an attempt to trace these relations by means of an extensive review of materials on Africa and to examine Japanese attitudes towards Africa and African people in the Meiji period. Much emphasis was placed on a compilation of an African bibliography, since there had been no full length bibliographical works devoted specifically to books, articles and govenmental papers concerning Africa from politics to juvenile literature during the period, 1868 to 1912. The material is basically arranged chronologically. No references are made to sizes of works, but the full title of items is given.It can be clearly pointed out from the bibliography that the publication of African-related works increased markedly after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5. The change was observed not only in quantity but also in quality. Before the war, almost all the works were the translation of English and French novels and stories laid in Africa, but after the war, Africa turned out an object of studies in colonial administration. It was quite surprising that the number of books, joumals, magazines, and periodicals relating to Africa published in Meiji Japan was much more than anticipated. What I have done in this two-year research is in many ways only a beginning, for much remains to be done bibliographically, just as many aspects of the history of Afro-Japanese relations need much closer scrutiny and study.

日本与非洲的关系历史可以追溯到16世纪。据葡萄牙消息来源称，一些非洲人在 1540 年代末被带到日本。但明治维新后，日本与非洲的关系才开始变得密切。本研究试图通过广泛查阅有关非洲的资料来追溯这种关系，并考察明治时期日本对非洲和非洲人民的态度。由于1868年至1912年期间，还没有专门针对从政治到青少年文学的有关非洲的书籍、文章和政府论文的长篇书目，因此非常重视非洲书目的编纂。按时间顺序。没有提及作品的尺寸，但给出了项目的完整标题。从书目中可以清楚地指出，1894年5月甲午战争后，与非洲有关的作品的出版显着增加。这种变化不仅体现在数量上，也体现在质量上。战前，几乎所有作品都是取材于非洲的英法小说和故事的翻译，但战后，非洲却成了殖民统治的研究对象。令人惊讶的是，明治日本出版的有关非洲的书籍、期刊、杂志和期刊的数量远远超出了预期。我在这两年的研究中所做的工作在很多方面都只是一个开始，因为还有很多文献工作要做，就像非日关系史的许多方面需要更仔细的审视和研究一样。