No.098 研究課題 / Project
武蔵玉川における生活環境に関する地誌学的研究Regional geographical study of living environment in Musashi-Tamagawa area| 学術研究 Academic Research |
No.098 |
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| 代表研究者 Principal Investigator |
玉井 建三 Kenzo Tamai |
| 所属（採択当時） Affiliation |
聖カタリナ女子大学助教授 St. Catherine University |
| 研究内容要約 Research Summary |
近世まで全国のそれぞれの河川には各水系の本流に無数の河川名が存在していた。 多摩にしても、その河川名は水系の総称であって、流域には六郷川・玉川・多摩川‐丹波川などの水域部分がある。ことに玉川は生活空間の狭小な時代の名残りで、玉の礫が河川水を浄化して清流をなす場所と考えられる。 先人たちはそれを素直に土地に刻印したり、文学の題材にも借用した。その自然や歴史が、かつて玉川とともに暮らしをたてた河畔の人々の地誌的環境を語ってくれる。そこで、この内容を論考するため玉川と全国に分布する夕マ川を調査し、自然が浄化する作用と水系における位置的相関をとらえ、玉川の自然に関する普遍性を究明する。 その資料をもとに先人が伝言する地誌的環境との関連を論究することが主たる目的である。 Until modern times, several names were given to each river in Japan The term, Tama, is actually a generic name for the Tamagawa River system, which consists of the following tributaries: the Rokugo River, the Tamagawa River itself (written with a Chinese character meaning a ball, a stone or jewel: for differentiation, the term “jewel” is added in parentheses after the river name when necessary), the Tamagawa River (written with Chinese characters and given to the main stream of the Tamagawa River system) and the Taba River. The Tama (jewel) River, especially, is a relic of the old days when people lived in a confined area and believed that river gravels were tama (jewel) that purify river water. Ancient people used tama (jewel) as the name of areas, as well as for the theme of a literary work. From these geographical and historical data, we can imagine the geographical environment in which ancient people lived together with the Tama (jewel) River. In this study, we investigated the Tama (jewel) River and other rivers named Tamagawa River throughout Japan . Through this research, we analyzed the correlation between the self-purification function of the Tama (jewel) Rivers and their location in their river systems. Then we discussed the universality of the contribution of the Tama (jewel) Rivers to the natural environment. The main purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between these rivers and the old geographical environment transmitted from ancient inhabitants. |
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