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

今年的研究日程包括以下三个研究方向：1.对仙台市公墓的实际状况进行了研究调查。实地调查了仙台市公墓和私营公墓，以及位于仙台市范围内的佛教和天主教公墓。其他地区的相关材料收集从京都、横滨、东京等地收集了研究材料，以确定不同于标准家庭墓地类型的坟墓的实际情况。特别关注的是集体墓地，那里通常埋葬着一群未指明的已故个人的遗骸。鉴于仙台私人管理的墓地在建造坟墓时有时会使用风水，对京都一家墓碑制造商的个人和为客户提供墓地风水服务的其他人进行了访谈式调查。建立墓葬制度相关文献数据库日本对墓葬制度的研究源远流长。此外，近年来积极开展研究的不仅是人文社会科学，还有自然科学或跨学科领域的研究。尽管如此，到目前为止，还没有掌握这些领域综合研究的全部方面的材料。正是为了这个目的，建立了一个数据库，其中包括科学期刊、研究手册、一般杂志等，可以接触到更广泛的受众。随后发布了一份列出上述研究点成果的总结报告

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