AStudy of Ancient Capitals during the Modem Period : Interdisciplinary Research on History and the City

本研究采用通史、建筑史、风景园林史等多学科交叉的方法，对日本近代的“古都”进行了研究。研究对象选择了奈良、京都、首里等古都，以及冈山、名古屋、大坂、仙台、江田岛、吴、熊本等曾经的城堡城和军事中心。除了研讨会外，我们还在这些地点进行实地考察。在我们的研究过程中，我们考虑了政治和社会现实与“历史”和“传统”概念之间的现代联系和滑动。“我们还对军事城市、军事城市等的城市类型学进行了理论化。除了我们作为个人学者所做的工作外，这项研究的结果也将作为一本论文集出版，名为《现代历史城市》。

We conducted research on "ancient capital cities" in Japan during the modern period using an interdisciplinary approach that combines general history, architectural history, the history of landscape architecture, etc. We selected as the objects of our research ancient capitals such as Nara, Kyoto, and Shuri as well as former castle towns and military centers like Okayama, Nagoya, Osaka, Sendai, Etajima, Kure and Kumamoto, In additioll to research workshops, we also conducted fieldwork in each of these locations. In the course of our research, we considered the modern connections and slippages between political and social realities and the concepts of "history" and "tradition." We also theorized about the urban typologies of scholarlycities, military cities, etc. In addition to the work that we as individual scholars have produced, the results of this research willalso be published as a volume of collected essays entitled The Historical City in the Modern Period.