assimilations of Chinese informations and formation of views on northern region in Japan at early modern times

本研究课题由从事日本近代史研究的并川健二先生担任代表，日本近代史研究者山下纯利先生、日本民俗研究者新平湖江先生、新朝史和东北亚史研究者楠木义道先生共同参与。本文主要阐明了近代知识分子对北方的认识及其对社会大众的影响。为了弄清北方观在近代和现代的生活状况，我们选择了北方观对生活在那里的人们产生了重要影响的东北地区北部作为主要研究领域，并与九州地区东北部进行了比较。为了在广阔的时空中解决这个问题，聚集了不同领域的研究人员。

This research project is represented by Kenji Namikawa who engages in study of Japanese early modern history and also shared by Yamashita Sumire, a researcher of Japanese modern history, Huruie Sinpei, a researcher of Japanese folklore and Yoshimichi Kusunoki who researches history of Sin dynasty and the northeastern Asian history. We clarified the way how the intellectuals who lived in early modern society formed their views on northern region and its effect on the general public. To clarify how the views on northern region live in the modern and the present age, we choose the north part of Tohoku district where the views on northern region had an important effect on the people who lived in there as our main field of research and northeast region of Kyusyu district for comparison. Researchers who have different fields were gathered in order to solve our theme in expanse of time and space.