A General Study of The temple town (Monzen-Machi) of Zenkoji

我们分析长野市作为善光寺的寺庙城镇。主要研究结果如下：1.善光寺对长野市的社会经济影响正在减少。现在，长野市正在成长，因为它是长野县的行政和经济中心。2.通过对中古时期参拜善光寺的信众资料的分析，研究了前往善光寺的路线.将善光寺的寺庙所在地长野市与印度教圣地瓦拉纳西市进行比较，可以看出善光寺信仰的特点。对伊斯兰教朝圣和基督教朝圣进行了比较.日本有很多新善光寺，我们参观了其中的一些，并拍摄了照片，制作了幻灯片作为教学材料。

We analyzed Nagano City as the temple town of Zenkoji. The results are summarized as follows :1. Socio-economic effects of the Zenkoji Temple on Nagano City are decreasing. In the present, Nagano City is growing as it is the administrative and the economic center in Nagano prefecture.2. The documents on worshippers who visited the Zenkoji Temple in the middle ages are analyzed to study the route to the Zenkoji Temple.3. Nagano City which is the temple own of Zenkoji and Varanasi City which is the sacred place of Hinduism are compared to cosider the characteristic of the Zenkoki's faith. The Islamic pilgrimage and the Christian pilgrimage are compared.4. There are many Shin-Zenkoji in Japan, we have visited some of them and take pictures to make slides for teaching materials.