A Study of the interactive relationship between the creation and reception of literary texts

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In our institute (NIJL), we have constructed a union catalog database of Japanese classical books. Though its original aim is nothing but facilitating a bibliographiocal search, yet with the huge amount of the data already accumulated in it, it has proved to be an unexpectedly powerful resource for investigations beyond a mere reference. One possibility we here wish to explore through the use of the database is a statistical study of the interactive relationship between the creation and reception of literary texts. The grant we have received since 1997 has enabled us to develop a new classificatory system of literary genres as the basis for the inquiry of the creation-reception relationship. We have fed back the result of this research into the union catalog database, the essence of which we have made available widely on the internet. (The URL is : http : //quartet.nijl.ac.jp/IKDBpublic/IKDB.html)