Archaeological and Historical Study on the Background aboutFoundation of Temples and Regional Folklores: In the Case of Ancientand Medieval

众所周知，哈里马省有各种各样的地区民俗。本研究旨在以印度道士厚豆-森宁的民间传说为例，考察古代和中世纪佛教文化的特点及其社会背景。本文主要研究以下三个问题：(1)考古墓葬与该地区古寺庙关系的考古学和历史学考察；(2)中世纪寺庙及其基本传说的历史考察；(3)代表古墓葬的地域民俗和历史景观。因此，我们获得了兵库县石棺、中世纪寺庙和与后斗-森宁有关的传说场所的各种分布数据，并得出了一些新的假设，即后斗-森宁的民俗与古代巨石崇拜和区域石匠密切相关。

It is well known that there are various regional folklore in Harima province. The present study aims to examine the characteristics of ancient and medieval Buddhistic culture and its social backgrounds in the case of the folklore about Indian Taoist Houdou-Sennin, who was believed as a great temple founder in Harima. In this study we focus on three problems as follows; (1) archaeological and historical survey on the relationship between Kohun(old mounded tombs) and ancient temples in this area 7th - 8th century, (2) historical survey on medieval temples and its foundational legends, (3) regional folklores and historical landscape which represents them. As a result, we got various data on the distribution of stone coffins, medieval temples and legendary places connecting with Houdou-Sennin in Hyogo prefecture, and we obtained some new hypotheses that the folklore of Housou-Sennin is closely related ancient megalith worship and regional mason.