The Development of Modern Japanese's View of Life and Death as Seen from the Perspective of the Transformation in Graves

今年的研究计划包括以下三个研究方向：1。仙台市墓地现状的研究调查对仙台市的市立墓地和私人管理的墓地以及位于仙台市范围内的佛教和天主教墓地进行了实地调查。从京都、横滨、东京等地收集了相关资料，以确定与规范的家族坟墓类型不同的坟墓的实际状况。特别关注的是集体坟墓，其中一组非指定的死者的遗体通常被关押。基于这一事实，有时可以看到风水的使用，在仙台的私人管理的墓地建造坟墓时，进行了采访类型的调查，从个人京都墓碑制造商的业务和其他人提供坟墓风水服务的客户。坟墓制度相关文献数据库的建设日本对坟墓制度的研究有着悠久的历史。此外，近年来，不仅人文社会科学，而且自然科学或跨学科领域的研究也在积极进行。然而，掌握这些领域的整体方面的材料结合研究是直到目前还没有。为此，建立了一个数据库，其中包括科学期刊、研究手册、普通杂志等，可以广泛接触到读者，随后发表了一份总结报告，列出了上述研究点的结果

This year's research schedule encompassed the following three research directions :1. A research survey on the actual condition of the state of cemeteries in Sendai CityField surveys were conducted on both Sendai municipal cemeteries and privately managed cemeteries, as well as Buddhist and Catholic cemeteries located within Sendai city limits.2. Associated material collection of other regionsResearch material was gathered from Kyoto, Yokohama, Tokyo and other areas to ascertain the actual condition of graves that differ from the normative family grave type. Particular attention was focused on the collective grave wherein a group of non-specified deceased individual's remains are commonly interned.Based on the fact that the use of geomancy is sometimes seen in Sendai's privately managed cemeteries when constructing graves, an interview type survey was performed with individuals from a Kyoto gravestone maker's business and others who offer grave geomancy services to customers.3. Construction of a database of grave system related literatureJapan's research on the grave system has a lengthy history. Moreover, in recent years it has not only been the human social sciences but also the natural sciences or from interdisciplinary fields that research has actively been undertaken. Nonetheless, material that grasped the whole aspect of these fields combined research was until the present unavailable. It was towards this purpose that a database was constructed which incorporating scientific journals, research handbooks, general magazines and the like could reach a wide audience.A summary report listing the results of the above research point was subsequently published