Gendai Nippon on <Kuyoh Girei> no Jittaiteki Kenkyu (Fact-Finding INquiries of Services Held to Comfort and Calm Dowm Spirits in Contemporary Japan)

我们打算全面审查每个调查人员在过去两年中所获得的结果，概念化新的宗教情况并对其进行定义，并构建一个完整的调查研究。具体来说，在本研究中，我们对“kuyo girei”（当代日本的慰灵服务）的概念和定义进行了调整和重新思考，这是一项非常重要和艰巨的工作。由于每位研究员都花费了大量的时间来整理和完成自己的研究成果，所以我们无法在最后一年完成研究。随着每位研究员和助理研究员确定具体的研究课题，总的研究项目的最终结构已经确定。据介绍，首席调查员藤井正夫负责“当代日本精神观念的转变”，并担任总干事。具体内容大致分为两个部分，既有宗教部分和新兴宗教部分。在前一部分中，将考察客户和他们对动物，工具，宠物等服务的精神观念的转变。在后者中，边天宗教派使用水子kuyo（未出生婴儿的灵魂服务）作为传教和复兴教派的主要手段，Shorokushito Yamatoyama教派鼓励成员将死者家属的骨灰供奉在神圣的建筑物中，以存放死者的骨灰，天理教教派接受传统的宗教民俗，同时将研究传播到传统的农村。

We intended to comprehensively examine the results obtained in past two years by each of investigators, conceptualize new religious situations and give definitions of them and construct a whole research of the FACT-FINDING INQUIRIES OF SERVICES HELD TO COMFORT AND CALM DOWN SPIRITS INCONTEMPORARY JAPAN. Concretely speaking, it was a very important and hard work that we coordinated and reconsidered the concept and definition of the term "kuyo girei" (services held to comfort and calm down spirits in contemporary Japan) which we thought out at this research. We could not finish by the final year because each of investigators took a lot of time to arrange and complete their results of research.As each of investigators and assistant researchers decided concrete subjects of investigations, the final construction of total research project has been become definite. According to it, the head investigator, Masao Fujii takes charge of "a transformation of ideas of spirits in contemporary Japan" and "on kuyo girei" as the general. The details will be roughly divided into two sections, the part of established religions and the part of new religions. In the former section, clients and transformation of their ideas of spirits on services to animals, tools, pets and so on will be examined. In the latter, Bentenshu denomination uses mizuko kuyo (services to spirits of unborn babies) as main means of missions and revitalization of the sect, Shorokushito Yamatoyama denomination encourages members to enshrine the ashes of their dead families in the sacred building to house the ashes of the dead and Tenrikyo denomination accepts traditional religious folkways while she propagates into the traditional farming village will be researched.