Domestication of natural vegetated landscape observed in the sacred mountain in Japan.

首席调查员Hori讨论了圣山、三仙山、石岛、广岛等圣地的自然植被景观与与樱桃树和日本枫树相关的人工植被景观之间的文化关系的历史变迁。这项研究的一部分成果发表在名为《风景的世界》(Fuukei No Sekai)的书中，该书由Ninomiya-Shoten出版社于2004年出版。此外，Hori讨论了神圣植被日本雪松(Cryptomeria sp.)的地理水平分布和垂直分布。在日本。它是日本靖国神社中的象征性树木，在日本神社的产生中起着重要的作用。调查员Oka讨论了冲绳岛自然植被景观与人类土地利用关系的历史变迁，调查员Matsuo讨论了自然植被景观与圣地空间结构之间的文化关系。利用地理信息系统对东北地区自然植被景观与人为植被景观之间的关系进行了探讨。讨论了日本自然宇宙观与苏铁植物景观之间的历史和文化关系。通过这项研究计划，讨论并展示了圣山地区自然植被景观中观察到的驯化过程或人为诱导过程的一些例子

Head investigator, Hori discussed on the historical change of the cultural relationship between the natural vegetated landscape in the sacred mountain, Mt.Misen, Itsuku-shima, Hiroshima and other sacred places, and the man induced vegetation landscape related to the cherry trees and Japanese maples. A part of this research results are published in the book entitled "Fuukei no sekai"(The world of landscape) published from Ninomiya-shoten, 2004. Besides, Hori discussed about the geographical horizontal distribution and the vertical distribution of sacred vegetation, Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria sp.) in Japan. It is the symbolic tree existing in the Japanese shrines ; Jinja, and the Japanese dedar play in important role in producing the Japanese sacred landscapeInvestigator, Oka discussed the historical change on the relationship between the natural vegetation landscape and human land use in Oki-no-shima Island, Investigator, Matsuo discussed the cultural relationship between natural vegetation landscape and the spatial structure of the sacred places. Investigator, Takaoka discussed the relationship between the natural vegetation landscape and the human induced vegetated landscape in the Tohoku region by using GIS. Investigator, Oyama discussed the historical and cultural relationship between the Japanese cosmology of nature and the cycad(Japanese sago palm) vegetated landscape We discussed and showed some examples on the domestication process or man induced process observed in natural vegetation landscape in the sacred mountain areas through this research program