Comparative Research on Literature and the Visual Image in Bakumatsu-Meiji Era Japan

本研究旨在考察和评估日本近现代后期和现代(明治时代)的文学和视觉艺术领域如何相互影响，最终形成一个连贯的文化活动领域。特别关注白松和明治时代第二个十年之间绘制或印刷的肖像，以及这些肖像如何反映或影响当代知识分子和政治活动家的思想。本文主要围绕以下三个问题展开研究：1、肖像画与汉字的互文性。2.白松时代积极分子的肖像和作者的肖像。3.刻有美女形象和肖像的汉字。

The present research aims to investigate and evaluate how the fields of literary and visual arts in later early modern and modern(Meiji era) Japan came to influence each other, eventually forming a coherent sphere of cultural activity. Especially close attention was paid to portraits painted or printed between the bakumatsu and second decade of the Meiji era, and how these reflected or influenced the thinking of contemporary intellectuals and political activists. Research was focused on the following three problems : 1. The intertextuality of portraits and kanshibun(sinological prose and poetry). 2. Portraits of and by bakumatsu era activists. 3. Kanshibun inscribed on images and portraits of beautiful women.