2020 Volume 85 Issue 774 Pages 1727-1737
In recent years, industrial heritage as a cultural heritage has received a lot of attention. The preservation of Industrial Heritage, a type of modern heritage, has great significance, not only in terms of the inheritance of material values, such as the age and scarcity of objects for preservation, but also in the inheritance of the "Narrative," which conveys the unique culture acquired by the region during its process of modernization.
Industrial Heritage, which comprises the context of the region, should be preserved not as a single entity, but to support the succession of the "Narrative." To this end, it is necessary to establish a method of preserving the environment in the surrounding area and passing on the “storage of memories” that existed there, while also considering the exchange of human resources, technology, goods, etc. The purpose of this study is to clarify the kind of "Narrative" that is spun by a locally rooted industrial heritage. In addition, this work endeavors to provide a concrete understanding of the inheritance itself and its relationship with the "space" of the region.
This research will focus on three Japanese industrial heritages: Kita-ku, Tokyo, and Suzaka city, Nagano and Kiryu city, Gunma. Collect Narrations from three Industrial Heritage volunteer guides to characterize the "Narrative" from Narrations.
The results of this study are summarized as follows.
First, it was clarified that the "Episode" forming a "Narrative" can be evaluated from two perspectives, which are the "content of the narration" and the "spatial extent of narrations." The content of the report comprises six parts: Narrations of things, Narrations of science and views, Narrations of military and labor, Narrations of the history of industrial technology, Narrations of human activities and culture, and Narrations of official history. The spatial component of the narrations comprises four categories: “Site-Oriented,” “Semi Site-Oriented,” “Area-Oriented,” and “Not attaced to area.” It was possible to grasp the spatial characteristics of the episode using the above two viewpoints. Therefore, it was found that the spatial characteristics of the episode could be grasped using the following three classifications: "Episodes relating to the particular object", "Episodes relating to the place" and "Episodes without any limitation of an object" by integrating the two viewpoints.
Second, many of the "Episodes relating to the particular object" included Narrations of things by discussing specific buildings. Many of the "Episodes relating to the place" consisted of Narrations of science and views, Narrations of military and labor, Narrations of history of industrial technology, and Narrations of human activities and culture, for which extensive discussions were conducted on the region. Most of the "Episodes without any limitation of an object" were Narrations of official history. Focusing on the density of the network diagrams in episodes, "Episodes relating to the place" depicted a larger number of dense co-occurrence networks than "Episodes relating to the particular object" and "Episodes without any limitation of an object." Thus, the "Episodes relating to the place" played an important role in forming a detailed "Narrative."
