A Comprehensive Study of the Intermediaries in Kumejima between Various Eastasian Cultures.

为了了解熊岛在冲绳文化中的地位，这个研究小组从以下两个方面展开了研究：一个是分析熊岛新解锁的4个私人档案(上社、吉屋家、与森家、宫城县)中的2000个MS和印刷资料；另一个是在岛上的村落仪式中进行田野调查，这些仪式是由“神女”团体进行的。这个研究小组由不同的学者组成，包括中国和前现代家庭百科全书专家。日本，重建了岛内文人的日常活动，他们在东亚各种阴阳学派之间扮演了中介角色。结果表明：1.文人们主要关心的是占卜墓事、风水、医学的知识。这使得他们除了收集中国经典著作外，还收集了广泛的日文和中文日常使用书籍，如果与…相比，这些书籍的种类令人印象深刻冲绳其他岛屿的私人档案，如石垣岛的私人档案；2.房主，地方知事本身，虽然依赖这些占卜书籍，进行家庭仪式，如祖先崇拜或为火神祈祷，正是在这种情况下，“神女”，其中大多数是这样的主人的亲戚，参与其中，她们的中介能力往往依附于男性文人在土著精神世界中有些书生气的决定意义。这些档案中新发现的大量家庭祈祷记录证明了这一点。与上述2.结合上述情况，对用于家庭祈祷仪式的房屋和花园的空间结构中的象征意义进行了详细的研究。此外，这个研究小组检查了在岛上各种中世纪城堡土丘表面发现的许多陶瓷碎片，并得出结论，许多人交易的商品主要来自13世纪和14世纪的中国。较少

To comprehend the position of Kumejima in Okinawan Culture, this group pursued its studies in the following two lines : the one is to analyze the 2,000 MSS and printed sources in the newly unlocked 4 private house archives in Kumejima (the Uezus, the Yoshihamas, the Yosenagas, the Miyagis) ; and the other is to do field-work in the isle's village rituals conducted by groups of 'divine women'.This research group, consisting of diverse scholars including experts in pre-modern household encyclopedias of China and. Japan, has reconstructed the daily activities of the isle's literati ; their intermediary roles between varied Ying-Yang schools of thought of East-Asia.The results obtained are as follows : 1. Te major concern of those literati was the knowledge of divining proper dates for grave undertakings, of geomancy, and of medicine. This made them collect a broad-range of Japanese and Chinese books for daily use besides Chinese classics, the variety of which is impressive if compared wit … More h those of the private archives in other Okinawan isles such as Ishigakijima ; 2. The house masters, local magistrates themselves, while dependent on those divining books, conducted house rituals, such as ancestor worship or prayer for the fire god, and it was on such occasions that the 'divine women', most of whom were such masters' relatives, were to be involved and their intermediary talents tended to attach to male literati's somewhat bookish decisions meanings in the indigenous spiritual world. This point has been proved by the newly found numerous records of family prayers which were found in these archives.Relating to the above 2., the symbolism in the space-structure of the houses and gardens that were used for such rituals has been studied in details. In addition, this research group examined many fragments of ceramics, which had been found on the surface of the isles' various medieval castle mounds, and reached the conclusion that many were trading goods coming mainly from l3th-&-l4th-century China. Less