Historical Change of Japanese Environmental Cognition: Representation of the 'Place' in Myth, Legend and Folktales

1.在青森县、山形县、福岛县、新泻县、富山县、山梨县、群马县、德岛县、香川县、爱媛县、高知县、佐贺县、长崎县等地的图书馆和田野调查民间传说"蛇是新郎“。民间故事十一因子和传说十三因子数据库的制作。特别是在传说，我做了数据库的照片，录像机，和地图的地方和采访。3.对这些数据库进行定量研究，以了解主题、景观和地方王国之间的空间关系.为了知道哪个王国使用了这个神话，这个研究项目绘制了这个神话的代表地点。为了研究日本人环境认知的历史变迁，本研究以神话、传说和民间故事中的“场所”为研究对象。值得注意的是，这项工作得出结论，中世纪日本是日本环境认知的转折点。

1. Investigation of folktale and legend 'a snake as bridegroom' (hebi muko-iri/o-damaki gata) in following regional libraries and the fields : Aomori, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Toyama, Yamanashi, Gunma, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi, Saga, Nagasaki Prefecture.2. Making of database in eleven factors on folktale and thirteen factors on legend. Especially on legend, I made database about photos, VTR, and maps of the place and interviews.3. Quantitative research on these databases to understand spatial relationships between motif, landscapes and the local kingdoms.4. To know which kingdom had used the myth, this research project mapped the represented place of the legend.5. To research on historical change of Japanese environmental cognition, this study focused on representation of the 'place' in myth, legend and folktales. Notably, this work concluded that Medieval Japan was turning point of Japanese environmental cognition.