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INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES STAFF
AND SEMINARS 1991
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ZINBUN (1992), 26: 83-90
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1992-03
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INSTITUTEFOR RESEARCH INHUMANITIES
STAFF AND SEMINARS
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DepartmentofJapaneseStudies
FURUYA, Tetsuo ,Professor , JapaneseFascism
ASUKAI, Masamichi ,Professor , JapaneseCulturalHistory
YAMAMOTO,Yuzo,Professor , EconomicHistory
SASAKI, Suguru ,Professor , PoliticsinEarlyMeijiJapan
YOKOYAMA, Toshio ,AssociateProfessor ,D.Phil.(Oxon.) , Pre-modernSocialHistory
FUJII,]oji,AssociateProfessor , D.Litt.(KyotoUniv.) , Pre-modernPoliticalHistory
YAMAMURO,Shinichi ,AssociateProfessor , HistoryofJapanesePoliticalThought
MIZUNO, Naoki , Associate Professor , D. Litt. (Kyoto Univ.) , History ofKoreaunderJapanese ColonialRule
ELISON, George , VisitingFellow(February 1991-January 1992),Ph. D. (HarvardUniv.) , Early ModernJapaneseHistory
TSUKAMOTO,Akira, Instructor , Pre-modernSocialHistory
SAITO, Mareshi , Instructor , LiteraryHistory
OCHIAI, Hiroki , Instructor , ModernJapaneseSocialHistory
YASUTOMI,Ayumu , Instructor , HistoryofMoney DepartmentofOrientalStudies
ARAI,Ken ,Professor , ChinesePoetry
UMEHARA, Kaoru , Professor , D. Litt. (Kyoto Univ.) , Historyοif Institutionsin theSongPeriod
YOSHIKAWA,Tadao ,Professor , HistoryofIdeasintheSixDynasties
TONAMI, Mamoru , Professor , D. Litt.(KyotoUniv.) , SuiandTangSocialHistory
HAZAMA,Naoki ,Professor , ModernChineseHistory
KUWAYAMA, Shoshin , Professor , D. Litt. (Kyoto Univ.) , SouthandCentralAsiaticArchaeology bザore Islam
KOMINAMI,Ichiro ,Professor , HistoryofThoughtandReligioninAncientChina
ARAMAKI,Noritoshi ,Professor , HistoryofBuddhisminIndiaandinChina
ONO, Kazuko , Professor , D. Litt.(KyotoUniv.) , PoliticalHistoryofLate 凡打ng
AN, Zhimin , Visiting Professor (December 1991-May 1992), Chinese Archaeology, especially of Pre-historicalCultureinLiaodongPeninsula
KATSUMURA,Tetsuya ,AssociateProfessor , Land-ownershφin MedievalChina
MUGITANI, Kunio ,AssociateProfessor , TaoismintheSixDynasties
SOFUKAWA,Hiroshi ,AssociateProfessor , HistoryofChineseArt
TANAKA, Tan , Associate Professor , D. Eng. (Tokyo Univ.) , History of Chinese Architecture
MORI,Tokihiko ,AssociateProfessor , CottonIndustryinModernChina 83
TAKATA, Tokio, AssociateProfessor.Ph.D.(E.H.E.S.S.) , HistoryofChineseLanguage
TOMIYA, Itaru,AssociateProfessor , LegalHistoryofAncientChina
KISHIMOTO, Mio,VisitingAssociateProfessor , Socio・economic HistoryoftheMing-QingPeriod
ARAI, Shinji, Instructor , HistoryofChineseAstronomy
INABA, Minoru , Instructor , EarlyIslamicHistoryofSouthandCentralAsia
FUNAYAMA, Toru , Instructor , HistoryofBuddhistLogic
TSUJI,Masahiro , Instructor , PoliticsandSocietyinMedi れJal China
ISHIKAWA,Yoshihiro , Instructor , HistoryandThoughtofChineseCommunism
NAKASUNA,Akinori , Instructor , ElitesinT'angandSungChina
YOKOTE, Hiroshi ,Instructor , TaoisminSongandYuanPeriods
TANH,Yoko, Instructor , BureaucracyinLateImperialChina DepartmentofOccidentalStudies
YAMASHITA, Masao,Professor , HistoryofEuropeanLogic
TANI,Yutaka ,Professor , FormalAnalysisofConversationalInteraction
SAKAGAMI, Takashi ,Professor , ModernEuropeanThought
MAEKAWA, Kazuya ,Professor , Assyriology
IKARI,Yasuke , Professor ,Ph.D.(ChicagoUniv よ Indology
YAMADA,Keiji,VisitingProfessor , MedicineandThoughtinAncientChina
USAMI,Hitoshi , AssociateProfessor , ModernFrenchLiterature
TOMINAGA,Shigeki ,AssociateProfessor , Sociology ザKnowledge
TANAKA, Masakazu , Associate Professor , Ph. D. (London) , SocialAnthropology ofSouth Asia
OURA,Yasusuke ,AssociateProfessor ,Ph. D.(Univ.ofParis-VII) , LiteraryTheories
IWAKUMA, Yukio,Lecturer ,Ph. D.(CopenhagenUniv.) , Logicinthe12thCenturyEurope
SUZUKI, Keiji, Instructor , StudiesoftheDecadence
FUJITA,Takanori , Instructor , Ethnomusicology
MITSUNAGA, Masaaki , Instructor , BritishModernHistory
SASAKI,Hiromitsu , Instructor , HistoryofMedievalGermany
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A STUDYOF “ 恥lANCHUKUO"
(coordinatedbyProfessorYAMAMOTO, Y., April 1987...,March1992)
“
M an ch u r ia " (presentlyThreeNorth-EastProvincesofChina)wasamainpartoftheJapaneseColonial Empire before the World War II. The aimofthis seminar is to get acomprehensive
understanding(namelyofpolitical ,economicandculturalaspects)ofJapanesecolonialruleofthis areawithspecialreferencetothe“M anc h u ku o " Period(1932- 1945),fromtheviewpointofJapanese colonialstudiesaswellasofChineseregionalstudies.
A HISTORICALSTUDYOF IDEASOFASIANIN 恥IfODERN JAPAN
(coordinatedbyProfessorFURUYA,T.,April1988..."March1992)
Itwasduringthelastquarterofthenineteenth centurythattheword‘A sia ' becamepopular
amongmanyJapanese. In mostcases, however , peoplewhousedthewordhadlittleconcreteor
coherentknowledgeofAsiancountries.
ofmodernJapanbyexaminingthefollowingthreepoints: 1)thewayinwhichinformationabout AsiancountriesreachedJapan;2)Japanesemodesofexpectationfrom,oractivitiesin,thesecountries;
3)thegrowthamongtheJapaneseofthenotionof
‘
J ap an 's Burden , orNationalDuty'whichwasencouragedbycertainideasof‘A sia'
A N INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDYOF KAIBARA EKIKEN (1630-1714)AND HIS TIME
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorYOKOYAMA,T.,April 1988", March1992)
Theaimofthisweeklyseminaristoattainacomprehensiveviewofvariouscharacteristicsof 17th-and-18th-centuryJapanese society, whichhashithertooftenbeenregardedmerelyasaperiod oftransitionfromthemedievaltimetothemodern. Ourmethodwillbetoundertakeaninterdisciplinary analysis ofthewritings ofKaibara Ekiken , an active thinker ofthe time. This method will be adoptedbecauseoftheunusualbroadnessofKaibara'ssocialconcerns. Ineach seminar , scholars
ranginginfieldsfromJapanese ,ChineseandEuropeanstudiestothesciencessuchas psychology ,
botanyandmedicine ,willdiscussthecharacteristicsofthetimewhichwerereflectedinKaibara'sworks.
STUDIESINTHEPERIODOFTHE 恥fEIJI RESTORATION
(coordinatedbyProfessorSASAKI, S.,April 1988'"March1992)
ThethemeofthisseminaristoexplicatetherealmeaningoftheMeijiRestorationinthecultural andsocialdevelopmentofthe19thcentury. Forthistask,1)theexaminationandcriticismofexisting researchfromthe 1960sonwardsand2)theclassificationandanalysisofnewlyfoundmaterialsof historyarerequired. UpontheseanalysesthenewimageoftheMeijiRestorationcanbereconstructed.
LESSONSFRO 恥1 LITERATURE
(coordinatedbyprofessorASUKAI, M.,April1989'"恥 larch 1992)
TheparticipantsinthisresearchprojectaremainlyresearchersinJapaneseliterature ,butinclude also researchersintheliteratureofothercountriesrangingfrom Britain, America , France, Russia
andGermanytoAsiannationssuchasBurmaandIndia.
Initially ,nosinglethemewasidentified ,butparticipantsmadecontributionstovariousdi 仔erent problemsconcerningliterature. However ,aftertwoyears' work, suchissuesas
“modernization
in literature",“
rom an ticism " and“
lan gu age andstyle"areemergingasmajorthemes.In themonthlyreading sessions ,thesubjecthasbeen Motoori Norinaga'sShibunyoryo(The Essentialsof 恥furasaki's Genji). ItisshortlyplannedtotreatthetranslatedworksoftheMeijiperiod. BASIC BIOGRAPHICAL DATAO N LEADING POLITICAL FIGURES INTHE SEVENｭ TEENTHCENTURY
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorFUJII,J.,April 1990", March1993)
Theaim ofthis project is to gathercomprehensive information relatingto the activities and
whereaboutsatanyonetimeofmenwhoperformedimportantpoliticalrolesinthefirstcenturyof
the early modern period in Japan. This information will then become the shared property of researchers. Researchwillbebasedonanalysisofthevastandrichcorrespondenceofthepolitical figures extant from this period. The aim is to depict seventeenth-century history from a fresh
perspective ,throughdocumentingtheactivitiesofimportantfiguresofthetime.
RESEARCHO NCHINAINTHE1920'S
(coordinatedbyProfessorHAzAMA,N., April1988-March 1993)
Forthepastfifteenyearstheresearchgrouphasbeenworkingonthreemajorthemesofmodern
Chinesehistory. From1973to1978westudied“T h e MayFourthMovementPeriod" ,from1978
to1983thetopicwas “Culture andSocietyinEarlyRepublicanChina" ,andfrom1983to1988the
topicwas
“The
National Revolution'¥Duringtheperiodofthelastresearch project , westudiedproblemscoveringtheperiodfromtheMayFourthMovementtotheAnti-JapaneseWar.
InApril1988westartedanewfiveyearresearchprojectdealingwith“C h in a inthe1920's'¥On thebasisoftheresultsofthelastresearchprojectwedecidedtotakeacloserlookatChineseSociety inthe 1920's,studyingitsdi 仔erent political ,economic , andculturalaspects.
STUDYOF
“LI"
SYSTEMINANCIENTCHINA(coordinatedbyProfessorKOMINAMI, I.,April 1989-March1994)
The
“Ii"
systemwasoneofthemostfundamentalelementsinChinesecultureinthepast. It emanatedfromthereligiousideasandsocialcustomsinancientChinaandcametobesystematizedinpre-QinandHandynastyperiods. Ithadabige仔ect onthedailylifeofChinesepeoplefrom
thattimeuntiltherecentChineserevolution. Inourresearch seminar ,wehavebeenundertaking translationandannotationofthe“Z h ou Ii"(oneoftheThreeCanonsofLi),therebyintendingto clarifythecharactersticfeatureofthe“Ii" systeminChineseculture.
恥1ETH O D S AND 恥1ATERIALS OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorTAKATA, T., April1990-March1993)
This seminaris arranged in order to provide asolid basis for the future compilation ofthe historyoftheChineselanguage. Forthistask,notonlymaterialsfromvariouswrittendocuments whichrangefromthemostancienttimesdowntorecentdays,butalsothosefromdialectalstudies willbetakenupfordiscussion. Inaddition ,specialattentionwillbepaidtomethodologicalrefinements ofthehistoricalstudyoftheChineselanguage.
A STUDYO NARTOFTHESIXDYNASTIES
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorSOFUKAWA,H., April1990-March 1995)
Theaimofourresearchseminaristoformacorrectandup-to-dateimageoftheSixDynasties
artfromthethirdtothesixthcentury. Wewillanalyzetheseartsaccordingtothreefields, 1)vast archaeologicalmaterialsunearthedsincethecommunistrevolution ,2)Buddhistgrottotemplessuch asYungangandLongmen ,3)theaesthetictheoryinpaintingandcalligraphy.
THELIFEOF CHINESELITERATI
(coordinatedbyProfessorARAI, K., April 1991-March1993)
The object ofthis study is the so-called‘bunj in shumi' in China. ‘B unj in shumi' means the tastewhichtheChineseliteratihaveconsideredthebestasaprivatelifestyle. Ourstudyisnotconｭ finedtoaperiodbuttotheareaJiang-nan ,theculturalcentreinoldtimes. Themainthemeofthe
studyisZunshengbajianbyGaoLian(Mingdynasty).
SOCIETYANDCULTUREINLATE 恥nNG AND EARLYCHINGPERIODS
(coordinatedbyProfessorONO, K., April1991-March 1995)
During17thcentury ,Chinaexperienceddynamicchangesinitssocialstructure ,economy ,ideology
andculture. TheChingdynastywhichhadtakenovertheMingdynasty ,restructuredthosechanges andestablishedthebaseforthenewruleofthenationfor 260years. Thepurposeofourstudy
is to capture the changing phases of the period in various aspects along with methodological
examinations. Thestudygroupmeetseveryweekfortextreadingandindividualresearchreports. The textsincludebiographiesofrepresentativefiguresofthetimeindi 仔'erent fields.
INDIA AND CENTRAL ASIA ACCORDING T O BUDDHIST PILGRIMS: A STUDY OF
THEFAXIANZHUAN ,OR FAXIAN'STRAVELSINSOUTHASIA
(OrganizedbyProfessorKUWAYAMA,Sh., April 1991-March1996)
Theproject inauguratedin 1983 has aimed atsheddingfresh lightsofmodern disciplines on various classical records of Buddhist pilgrims and their biographers in order to gain historical informationonCentralAsiaandIndia. A studyofHu山1泊ichao' 、s Acc 印ount 幻s onFi如!~均ve IndicRegi thus culminated in having a Japanese version publishedwit 出h detailed annotations in1円99 引1 ， the Faxianzhuanhas become anewtargetofcritical elucidation. The bi-weeklymeetingon Monday afternoonisexpectedtoreachabetterunderstandingofBuddhistIndiainthefifthcenturywiththe outlookofhistory , geography ,language , andreligion.
STUDYO NTHEHISTORYOFTECHNOLOGYINCHINA
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorTANAKA,Tan ,April1991-March 1996)
Theaimofthisweeklyseminaristoclarifythecharacteristicsoftheseveralfieldsofthetraditional technologyinChina,inparticularthefieldsrelatedwiththeusuallifeanddomesticsciences. Our immediate plans are to read and give the Japanese translation oftwodi 仔erent kinds oftexts on agricultureandhorticulture;themaintextforthegeneralinterestsisNengShu(AgriculturalTreatise) writtenbyWangZhenin1332ofYuandynasty ,thesubsidiaryoneforthespecificinterestsisZhejiang
Lu(CollectedBiographiesof 恥Iastercraftsmen) editedby LiangQi-Xiongin 1933. Aswellasthe
philological works,wealsoplanforthememberstogivetheirlecturesonthevarioussubjectson
thehistoryoftechnologyinChina.
MATERIALCULTUREOFMEDIEVALCHINA
(coordinatedbyProfessorTONAMI ， 九i . ， April 1991-March 1996)
Inacontinuedseries, thisseminaralsocoverstheperiodfrom thethirdcenturyB.C.tothe
tenth century A.D. and will examine both transmitted and newly excavated materials , including
inscriptions ,manuscripts ,paintings ,andotherartifacts.
Recentlypublicationsofarchaeologicalreportshavegrowntoomuchtodigest. Wecannotstudy Chinesesocialhistory ,inthebroadersense,withoutmakinguseofthesematerialsappropriately. We seektodigintothecultureofmedievalChinaonthebasisoftheachievementofourpreviousseries ofstudies.
LAWINPRE-恥10DERNCHINA
(coordinatedbyProfessorUMEHARA, K., April 1991-March 1996)
In this session , weshall examine the legal system ofthe pre-modern China, which is most
importantforunderstandingthesocietyandcultureofthisperiod. Wetakeup,asafirststep,the
TongdianbyDuyouoftheTangdynastyandhavebeenreadingitssectiononcriminallawforgetting
a general outline of the ancient law code history. Further weshall pay attention to the newly discovered materials such as the wooden and bamboo strips in order to supplement our study.
RESEARCH INTOTHEDAOIS恥'1 OFTHESIXDYNASTIESII
(coordinatedbyProfessorYOSHIKAWA,T.,April 1991", March 1996)
TheZhengaobyTaoHonεjing oftheLiangdynastyisacompilationdealingwiththevarious
divinitiesofDaoism. Inourresearchseminarweproposetoundertakeacompletetranslationand
annotationoftheZhengao,therebyilluminatingthesituationofDaoismintheSixDynastiesperiod.
EDITORIALCOMMITTEEFORCOMPILATIONOFTHEANNUALBIBLIOGRAPHYOF
ORIENTALSTUDIES
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorKATSUMURA,T.)
Thecommittee ,whichiscomposedofbothscholarsandlibrariansfortheannualpublicationof thebibliographyoforientalstudies ,meetsregularlyattheDocumentationCenterforOrientalStudies. More than thirty volumeshave alreadyappearedunderthe editorship ofthecommittee. Allthe
orientalstudieswritteninJapanese ,ChineseandKoreanarecataloguedbythecommitteemembers. To
preventomissionofanyimportantliterature ,theprinciplehasbeenadoptedthatallthebooksand
articleswritteninforeignlanguagesotherthanChineseandKoreanshouldbecataloguediftheyare reviewedorreferredtoinanyjournals.
FA 孔lILY ANDHOUSEHOLDINCOMPARATIVEHISTORY
(coordinatedbyProfessor 恥'1AEKA WA, K., April 1989", March1992)
A comparativestudyismadeonthefamilyandthehouseholdinpre-industrialsocietiesofEurope ,
China ,Japanand WesternAsia. Ourstudygroupcontainshistorians ,anthropologists , sociologists andspecialistsinthehistoryofideas. Topicstreatedareasfollows:familyreconstruction ,life-cycle
patterns , population change, patternsofproperty inheritance , lineageformation ofmedieval noble
families ,andpopularattitudestowardsthefamilyandthehouseholdinearlymodernsocieties. We regardrecentanthropologicalandsociologicalstudiesonthefamily, thehouseholdandthe kinship structure as highly stimulative to the field of social history. Historians of a traditional disciplinehaveregardedthefami!) ァand thehouseholdinpre-industrialsocietiesasimmovableand
static, and thereforehavetreatedthem ratherlightly. Since the familyandthehouseholdalways functionedasbasicunitsintheintegrationofanypre-industrialsociety,however ,theydeservetobe studiedmostseriouslybysocialhistorians. Privatedocumentssuchasfamilyarchivesanddiaries ,
which have often been left unutilized by scholars of previous generations , are important source materialsforourstudy.
A STUDYOF LEGALTHINKING
(coordinatedbyProfessorYAMASHITA ， 恥1. ， April 1989", March 1992)
Thoughitisoftensaidthatthedevelopmentoflogicinthetwentiethcenturyissplendid ,itcan be confined only tothedomainofontic logic. Whileontic logic has beenhighlyelaborated , the other domain oflogic, that is, deontic logichas been lefttotallyundevelopedtothe presentday. Ourseminarthenaimstoadjustthebalanceinthissituationbytrying 1)toestablishdeontic
moralorethicalcodeofordinarylife. Thisjointstudybringstogetherspecialistsinsuchfieldsas
logic,jurisprudenceandethics.
VIOLENCEINRELIGIOUSCONTEXTS
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorTANAKA ， 恥1. ， April 1990", March1993)
Thisprojectaimstoanalysevariousaspectsofviolence ,symbolicoractual,especiallyinrelation toreligiousbeliefsandrituals. Althoughviolenceisanimportantthemeinsocialscience,thereseem
tohavebeenfew systematicattemptstounderstandit. Herewedealwithviolencemainlyinthe
followingtwoaspects: first, theoretical argumentson the function andmeaningofviolence in the formationofhumansociety; secondly , cross-culturalstudiesontheideasofviolenceanditsforms andmeaningsinreligiouscontexts.
KNOWLEDGEASSOCIALORDER:STUDIESO NTHEFOR恥1ATIONOFELITECLASSES
IN19THCENTURYEUROPE
(coordinatedbyProfessorSAKAGAMI,T.,April 1990", March1994)
Around1800,Europeancountriesunderwentprofoundchanges ,notonlyinpoliticsandeconomy
butalsoincultureand socialstructure. Newkindsofknowledge ,especially scientific knowledge ,
hadgreatinfluenceuponreconstructingsocialorders. Thistransformationofsocietyalsoproduced neweliteclasses:technocrats ,universityradicals ,engineers ,andeverykindofexpertinthesciences ,
who participated in the reconstruction of the social order with their scientific knowledge. This researchprojectaimstoclarifytherelationshipbetweenknowledgeandthesocialorderbyinvestigating theformationoftheneweliteclassesin19thcenturyEurope. Specialemphasiswillbelaidonthe reconstructionofnationalhighereducation ,whichplayedacentralpartintheformationoftheelites.
SIGN , SENSE , AND LITERATURE-INSEARCHOF N E WHORIZONS FORLITERARY THEORY
(coordinatedbyAssociateProfessorOURA, Y., April 1991", March1994)
Whatisliterature? Thisquestion ,whichhasbeenposedtimeandagainsinceAristotle ,willbe
atthecenterofourconcern ,thoughwemustbeconsciousofmoderndevelopmentsinthetheoretical
approachtoliterature ,beingespeciallyawareofrecentsemioticalandstructuralmethodologies. To apprehendliteraturewhereitinterfaceswithotherdisciplines(lin gu istics,sociology ,psychology ,etc.) willbeourobject.
CO 恥f 恥1UNICATION INNATURALSETTINGS
(coordinatedbyProfessorTANI, Y., April 1991'"March 1994)
Studiesincommunication ,especiallyinverbalcommunication ,havebeenbasedontheideasthat humantalkislinearlyconstructedaswrittentextis,thateachturninaseriesoftalksisattributed toasinglespeaker ,andthatthetimestructureofverbalcommunicationislinearandeven. The mainobjectiveofourjointstudyistocollectandanalysetypesofcommunicationphenomenawhich
couldnotbefullyunderstoodfromtheviewofverbalcommunicationreferredtoabove,andfurther ,
tomakeatheoryofcommunicationand/orsocialinteractioningeneralwhich would not be based
upon the language-centered idea. Our research group consists of ethnographers , anthropologists ,
sociologists ,ethologists ,andprimatologists. Inthefirstyear,wetriedtocriticallyreviewtheworks
on communication by E.Go 仔man ， G. Bateson and others. In the second year, wewill analyse
video-documentsofconversationalinteractionineverydaylife.
ANATO恥1YOFHU恥1ANITIES
(coordinatedbyProfessorYAMADA, K., April1991-March1994)
StudiesinHumanitiesseemtohavebeenattheturningpointinrecentyears,due,ontheone
hand, totheincreasingtendencyofspecializationandsegmentationobservedineachfield,and,on the other, tothe serious doubtsputtotheoverall“g ran d theories". ¥Viththissituation inview,
ourprojectaimsatconstuctinganewintellectualparadigm ,lookingforanewmethodologyforthe
studyofHumanities. Inourseminar ,wewilltakeuptheclassicalworksinthefieldsofHumanities
andreexaminetheirvariousaspectswhichmayopenourwaytotheintellectualinnovation. LAWANDSOCIETYINCLASSICALINDIA
(coordinatedbyIKARI,Y.,Professor ,April1991-March1995)
“D harma" (righteousness) is one ofthe most important key concepts for understanding the civilizationofIndia. Theword“dharma" isusuallytranslatedas “law ぺbut itdoesnotexaustthe topic. Farbeyondthe scopeoflegalorjurisprudentaspect, ithasexertedgreatinfluenceonthe idiomofnorm-expressioninthebroadspheresofsocialandculturaltraditionthrough theagesof
boththeclassicalandthemodernIndia. TheDharmasutrasandtheDharma 品stras belongtothegenre
ofliteraturewhichtreatof“dharma" initsvarioustopics. Inourseminar ,thefocushasbeenset
ontheformation periodoftheclassical Indiandharmaliteratureandourstandpointistoseethe
dharma-literatureratherasthemirrorofHinduculturaltraditions ,thanasthelegalliteratureinits limitedaspect. WehavetakenuptheYii} らavalkya-smrti ，oneoftheoldestDharma 詰stras ，andhave beenexaminingthecontentsandstructureofthistextthroughthejointcooperationofthescholars whoaretheexpertsofvariousfieldsofIndology. Throughtheanalysisofthedharmaliterature ,we trytoshedthelightontheaspectsoftheformationperiodoftheHinducivilizationwhichhavenot beenfullyinvestigated.
