Investigation and Research on Material of Biography in Japanese Old Books and Chinese Works Published in Japan

1.我们从日本各地图书馆和个人收藏的目录中挑选出没有在《国书所藏》和《光系所藏》中登记的与传记有关的书籍，并按照所有者编制了一份清单。2.我们调查了各地已知的和新发现的包括传记材料在内的书籍，3.从国立日本文学研究所收藏的缩微胶卷中，列举与传记有关的书籍，并对人物、时期、地域、他对各书所述的成就进行了整理，并编写了《国立日本文学院所藏传记类书籍简释》。通过这些工作，我们认识到单独使用传记的每一种材料是有风险的，有必要与其他材料进行比较。通过本课题的研究，每位研究者都撰写了关于历史人物传记或传记材料的论文和书籍。此外，我们还收集了对传记研究有用的手稿后记。这些只是现存后记的一小部分，但我们计划将来从这些数据开始建立后记数据库。

1.We picked out books concerned with biography which is not registered in "Kokushosomokuroku" and "Kotensekisogomokuroku" from catalogues of libraries and personal collections throughout Japan, and compiled a list arranging them according to the owners.2.We investigated already-known and newly found books including material of biography at various places, and examined their contents with comparing each other.3.We listed books concerned with biography from microfilms collected by National Institute of Japanese Literature, and made concise explanation on person, period, region, achievement which is covered in each book, and compiled "Concise Explanatory Notes of Books of Biography Collected by National Institute of Japanese Literature". However, we have finished half of all subjects for lack of time.4.Through these work, we recognized that there is risk to use each material of biography separately, and it is necessary to compare with other material. It was a valuable harvest that we could grasp extent of credibility of each material concretely through this project.5.Based on research by this project, each investigator wrote papers and books on a biography of a historical person or those concerning material of biography.6.In Addition, we gathered postscripts of manuscripts which is useful to research on biography. These are only small part of extant postscripts, but we plan to make postscripts database starting from these data in the future.