Research on Vigor(GENKI) of the Aged in Community Culture

社区文化中的老年人元气（GENKI）研究

• 批准号: 16530360
• 负责人: ASHIDA Tetsuro
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: Konan Women's University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2004 至 2006
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-16530360/
• 关键词: aged society; vigor of the aged; community culture; 老人参加; 元気

With the coming of "the ageing society" or "the aged society" many people seem to have dark and gloomy images of that. But we have seen a lot of elderly men and women who are full of vigor or vitality. Accordingly we have searched for possibility of "the cheerful and hopeful long-life society" through our empirical studies.Our basic attitude of research is that we never confine the images of the aged into a simple and unified frame and that we have to study actual lives of the aged in various specific scenes. Because each elderly man/woman has his/her own particular life and his/her life has vigor or vitality in each style.So we have investigated the real lives of "the vigorous elderly people" in some communities of the prefectures of Gifu, Kumamoto, Saga, etc. and their local cultural conditions. Especially we report in detail on the aged who contributed to the revival of YACHIYO-ZA, an old local theater which now is a symbol of renaissance of the community of Yamaga City of Kumamoto Prefecture. They organized and promoted vigorously the movement for the revival of YACHIYO-ZA which had faced a crisis of ruin.By this research we found a possibility of unique contribution of the aged to refreshment of a community. On one hand the aged of Yamaga are attached to and proud of their community and its culture strongly. On the other, they are free from the common senses of the community and sometimes raise resolute objections. Attachment and pride, freedom and objection : the unique combination of these attitude functioned successfully to revive the old local theater and to encourage the community and its culture.

随着“老龄化社会”或“老年社会”的到来，许多人似乎都有一个黑暗和悲观的形象。但我们看到了很多充满活力的老年男女。因此，我们通过实证研究来寻找“快乐而充满希望的长寿社会”的可能性，我们的基本研究态度是，我们不能把老年人的形象局限在一个简单统一的框架内，我们必须在各种具体的场景中研究老年人的实际生活。由于每个老年人都有自己独特的生活方式，他们的生活方式也各具活力。因此，我们调查了岐阜县、熊本县、佐贺县等地部分社区的“活力老人”的真实的生活和当地的文化状况。特别是详细报道了为复兴熊本县山贺市社区复兴的象征--老地方剧场八公座做出贡献的老人。他们积极组织和推动了面临毁灭危机的八代座复兴运动。通过这项研究，我们发现了老年人对复兴社区做出独特贡献的可能性。一方面，山贺老人对他们的社区及其文化充满依恋和自豪。另一方面，他们不受社会常识的约束，有时会提出坚决的反对意见。依恋与骄傲，自由与反对：这些态度的独特组合成功地恢复了当地古老的戏剧，并鼓励了社区及其文化。