Kyoko AMANO　Associate ProfessorAlumni
  • Period
    8th（Term: from Oct. 2017）
    グローバル型
  • Research Interests
    Ancient Indian Literature
  • Research Topic
    Language and social-cultural background of the ancient Indian ritual literature

My research object is an ancient Indian text, Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, which is estimated to have been composed in ca. 900BC. This text is known to be difficult to understand because it contains peculiar knowledge about ancient rituals, which are not well understood. I published a German translation of the first half of this text in 2009 and am now translating the entire text. In the course of this study, I noticed that each chapter in the text has its own peculiarity of language style and I came to inquire about the different historical and cultural backgrounds of the chapters and to consider the development process of ritual and ritual philosophy at the time it was composed. I plan to introduce new methods of language style analysis, such as those developed by discipline of natural language processing, in order to open a new phase of study.

Related News

2022.12.14 Seminar
Hakubi Seminar Announcement (227th meeting)
2018.07.19 Presentation
Kyoko Amano gave a talk “The Non-Srauta Ritual in the Oldest Yajurveda Text – Maitrayani Samhita IV 2 (Gonamika Chapter) -”, at The 17th World Sanskrit Conference (University of British Colombia, Canada, 9-13 July 2018).
2018.03.26 Presentation
Kyoko AMANO gave a talk “Angiras in the old Yajurvedic literature”, at The 10th meeting for research of the Vedic literature (Tohoku University, March 26, 2018).
2018.03.26 Presentation
Kyoko AMANO gave a talk “Signs for worship of cows in the Vedic literature”, at The 4th symposium for collaborative Research “Brahmanism and Hinduism: Change and Continuity in South Asian Society and Religion” (The University of Tokyo, March 24-25, 2018).