著者

松井 幸一 高橋 誠一

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

no.44, pp.243-272, 2011-04

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Amami Oshima has created own unique culture, which is based on Ryukyu culture and also mixed with Yamato culture. Tatsugou-chou,a targeted research area for this paper,has mountain district and forest in the central part and villages are located on coast area and look like sticking on the island. Each village inside the island Amami Oshima is called "Shima," which means island in Japanese,since they do not have good access to transportation to other villages as if they are island. Therefore,folk culture also has defferent characters. Under this nature environment,people clearly differentiate between the own village, which they belong to, and the others,which are outside different/unfamiliar world. A targeted research area of this paper is Tatsugou-chou in Amami-oshima. This paper is aim to geographically reserch regarding villagers' consciousness toward self-world and outside world by restoring scattering spiritual places and traditional places of infesting specters on the map As aresult of reserch,there is a tendency that spiritual places are mainly located on old area of the villages and each village has the spiritual place, which is called "Kamiyama." This village constriction is with the philosophy based on "Kusate" idea, which is a traditional village constriction philosophy of Ryukyu. In addition, some cases are recognized that traditinal spiritual places are incorporated in "Heike" legend and lost an original meanings. On the other hand, many of specter-infecting places are located around the outer edges of each village. One of the reasons for this tendency is due to villagers' unconscious social group consciousness. In order to differentiate