Ethical Study of Narratives and Landscape as Representing Sacrality in Japanese Thought

上原通过参考Ki-Ki神话来研究Kami景观的本体论维度。此外，他通过对比古代的都市佛教和山地佛教，分析了佛教僧侣所接受的景观，并将其与与神有关的景观进行了对比。他研究神话和本庄坛。此外，他还根据出云和其他地区的实地考察，继续研究与神相关的景观的一般结构。柏木研究了《今昔物语集》中有关菩萨和神的精神体验的叙述，以及《神道集》中的叙述。她尤其关注菩萨/神灵与人类之间的关系，普通人超越自身界限成为神明的过程，佛陀和菩萨派来的人将成为神明，并与相关的人相伴，以及从古代晚期到中世纪神圣与世俗之间的谈判。木村认为关于风景的叙事以叙事的形式再现了人类通过身体感官和语言对神圣的体验。只有通过文字记载，我们才有可能辨别古人的空间观念作为特定场所的文化体验，作为叙事的背景。这种神圣的体验将被视为通过景观体验来记住神圣事件并感知神存在的地方。丰浅通过对中世纪古代叙事的研究，探索和调查江户时代现代主体出现的过程。在那里，他看到了两个重要的因素：佛教为对，儒家为依。

Uehara investigates the ontological dimension of landscape of Kami by referring to the mythology of Ki-Ki. In addition, by contrasting the urban Buddhism to mountain Buddhism in the ancient period, he analyzes the landscape accepted for Buddhist monks, and contrasts it to the landscape related to Kami. He studies the myth and Honjo-dan. Furthermore, he continues to investigate general structures of landscape related to Kami, based upon field work in Izumo and other areas.Kashiwagi studies the narratives concerning spiritual experience of Bodhisattva and deities in "Konjaku Monogatari-shu", and the narratives in "Shinto-shu". She especially takes up the relationship between Bodhisattva/deities and humans, the process by which the ordinary human transcends his own limits toward becoming Kami, the person sent by Buddha and Bodhisattva who will emerge as Kami, accompanied by related people, and the negotiation between the sacred and the profane from the late ancient period to the medieval.Kimura regards the narratives about the landscape as representing in the form of narrative the human experience of the sacred through bodily senses and language. Only through the written record, it is possible for us to discern the ancient people's spatial conception as the cultural experience of the specific place, as the background of narrative. That experience of the sacred would be seen as the place to remember the holy event through experience of landscape, and sense the presence of Kami.Toyoasawa explores and investigates the process of the modern subject emerging in Edo period, through the medieval study of ancient narratives. There, he sees two important factors : Buddhism as countering, and Confucianism as depending on.