COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SUCCESSIVE KAKURENENBUTSU BELIEF AT THE FOOT OF MT.KIRISHIMA

在小善寺和中保，只有一对来自家庭主要分支的已婚夫妇才能成为神道，也就是被家庭作为信仰单位继承的卡库伦延布津的信徒。信仰必须保持不仅从佛教徒，而且神的脚趾。神道由几个团体组成，其中每个神道都要保证保密的NAGARE，在KOZENJI和NAKAHO分别有3个NAGARE，但它们之间几乎没有任何相互交流或合作。NAGARE是一个等级制度，其中宗教领袖寺本是首脑。当一个人申请NAGARE时，他必须通过一个启动仪式，OGANTATE，并与神道建立一种仪式上的亲属关系。所有的神道教徒都是神社的成员，JINSHA，不是寺庙，TERA，每个NAGARE都遵循固定的宗教习俗，其中存在许多变体，但在阿弥陀佛和净土的信仰，泛神论的心态，祖先崇拜是坚定的共享。最关键的因素，区分神道教徒从佛教徒在OZA，宗教集会，其中萨满教占有的主题。焦虑的内在调整、治愈、寺本的选择，以及对另一个世界的坚定信念，都在OZA中得到了强化。KO，小规模的社会组织是协会，其中神足不排除自己从别人。目前已发现的佛教遗名墓约有74座，其中以“信女”、“信士”为中心的遗名墓集中在江户末期，以“本名社”为中心的遗名墓集中在近代

In KOZENJI and NAKAHO only a pair of a married couple from the main branch of a family can be SHIN TO, believers of KAKURENENBUTSU which has been succeeded by the family as a unit of belief. The belief must be kept from not only the BUDDHISTS but also the SHINTOES. The SHINTOES is composed of several groups, NAGAREs in which each SHINTO should pledge secrecy, There have been 3 NAGAREs in KOZENJI and NAKAHO respectively but there is hardly any mutual communication or co-operation among them. NAGARE is a hierarchical system in which TERAMOTO, religious leader, is the head. When a person applies to a NAGARE, he must go through a initiation ceremony, OGANTATE, and set up a ritual kinship with a SHINTO. All the SHINTOES are the members of a shrine, JINSHA, not of a temple, TERA, Each NAGARE has followed fixed religious practices in which many variants have existed, but the belief in AMITABHA and the Pure Land, pantheistic mentality, ancester worship are firmly shared among them.The most crucial factor that discriminates the SHINTOES from the BUDDHISTS in OZA, religious assembly, where shamanistic possession is the theme. Inner-adjustment of anxiety, curing, selection of TERAMOTO, and firm belief in the other world are fortified there in OZA. KO, social organizations of small size are the associations where the SHINTOES do not exclude themselves from others. Some 74 gravesones with posthumous Buddhist name have been discovered which shows that the ones with "shinnyo" and "shinshi) center around the last part of the Edo period, while the ones with "homyo shaku" around the modern times