著者

橋本 征治

出版者

関西大学東西学術研究所

雑誌

関西大学東西学術研究所紀要 (ISSN:02878151)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, pp.A49-A67, 2004-04-01

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In order to investigate the process of formation and development of the prehistoric culture of Japan, the cultures of the surrounding regions (East Asian, North Asian, Oceanic, and South East Asian Cultural Spheres) were analyzed in the framework of east-west and north-south axes. Also the races and the four major cultural elements, namely languages, stone tools, earthenware and agriculture were analyzed. According to the result of the analysis, the formation and the development of the prehistoric culture of Japan were very complex and multiplex, which brought the regional diversities. As for the relations with the surrounding regions, multiple axes such as northern axis, east-west axis and southern axis were observed, and a two-way relations developed along each axis. So, in order to explain about this multilayered and complex Japanese culture, it takes patient efforts to try to disentangle the process from time and space axes while keeping the two-way perspective, and to reconstruct it on the mesh of causality. One of the major tasks for that purpose is to regrasp the Japanese culture from the viewpoint of the nanpo, considering the wide range of influence of the southern cultural spheres on the positioning of the prototype of Japanese, Austronesian language element in the old Japanese language, some stone tools leading to Taiwan, southern earthenware, the relations between Jomon cultivation and root-crop cultivation that preceded the rice cultivation. They were examined in this paper.