The Research Study of Shikoku Henro Pilgrimage

这项调查是关于日本最著名的四国亨罗朝圣，今天大约有300.000朝圣者。这段徒步旅行涉及1400公里长，仅仅因为它，在有限的时间内理解整个朝圣是相当困难的。因此，在这项研究中，我聚焦于朝圣的几个重要方面，以更好地了解其现状。首先，问题是通过向德岛县和高知县朝圣道路上的人们实施问题，是否改变了传统的施舍(给朝圣者)的习俗。其次，我们已经知道，越来越多的朝圣者出版关于自己朝圣经历的日记和笔记。他们中的一些人打开了自己的主页，以宣传自己的经验。这些出版物对我们了解目前的朝圣本身发生了什么，以及朝圣如何给朝圣者的身体和精神都带来了巨大的影响，是非常有价值的。我将在未来的田野工作中继续这项研究。现在每年大约有5000人的徒步朝圣者，通过各种方式接触四国岛的大自然。研究大自然的环境，如雨、热、风和风景是如何影响朝圣者的身心的，这是非常有趣的。这项研究可以通过访谈及其出版物来完成。这项研究将在明年继续进行。此外，我还参观了许多朝圣寺庙，了解了四国猪圈发生的事情，获得了许多信息。

This survey is about Shikoku Henro Pilgirimage which is the most famous one in Japan, and about 300.000 pilgrims today. This pigrimage involves 1400 kilometers long, and simply because of it, it is quite difficult for understand the whole pilgrimage in the limited length of time. In this study, therefore, I focussed on a several important aspects of the pilgrimage to well understand its present situation.First of all, the question is to find out whether the traditional custom of settai (alms given to the pilgrims) has been transformed through implementing the questionare to the people along the pilgrimage roads in Tokushima and Kochi prefectures.Secondly, we already know that more and more pilgrims publish the diaries and the notes about the own pilgrimage experiences. Some of them open their own homepages in order to publicize their experiences. The publications are quite valuable for us to know what has been happening to the present pilgrimage itself and how the pilgrimage has given the tremendous amount of influence to pilgrims physically and mentally both. I will continue this study in the future field works.The walking pilgrims, now numbering about 5000 persons every year, in various ways, contact the nature in Shikoku Island. It is quite interesting to investigate how the nature's circumstance such as rain, heat, winds and landscape affect the pilgrims bodies and mind. This study can be done by the interviews and their publications. This study will be continued in the next year.Moreove, I visited many pilgrimage temples to know what has been happening in the Shikoku Pigrimage and acquired many information.