Formation and Landscape of Jomon Stone Circle and other Monuments

我们在日本各地举办了7次研讨会，研究了青森县的三奈丸山、秋田县的Ohyu石圈、群马县的野村、山梨县的Ushiisi等20多个地点，取得了很大的成功。1、本研究的结果表明，绳纹遗址的设计原则，如石圈，与这些遗址周围的太阳和山脉的运动有关。我们将绳纹纪念碑与太阳和山脉之间的这种关系命名为“绳纹景观”。我们认为，绳纹人一定是试图在一个纪念碑上表达夏至、冬至和春分。在许多情况下，特征的主要方向和从纪念碑到周围明显的高山的线与夏至和冬至的日出和日落一致。春分日出和日落的方向由两个至点计算。这种态度表明绳纹人很重视这件事。除此之外，可以推测三座山峰对于关东绳纹人的世界观有着重要的意义。在宇实石圈，从那里到三斗山的方向表明了春分日落的方向，我们在安娜卡市的一些地点也发现了类似的关系，从那里我们可以看到同样有三座山峰的美岐山。2、Toru Miyao研究了石圈的形成过程，如Komakino， Isedoutai, Ohyu，并揭示了每个石圈都是通过将两个小组石头排列在马戏的对面而形成的。

We has proved very successful we had seven symposium in various parts in Japan, and researched over 20 site, for example, Sannai-Maruyama in Aomori pref., Ohyu stone circles in Akita pref., Nomura in Gunma pref., Ushiisi in Yamanashi pref..1, The result obtained in this study demonstrated that design principles for monuments in Jomon, such as stone circles, related with the movement of sun and mountains around those sites. We named this relation Jomon monuments between sun and mountains "Jomon Landscapes".We figured out that Jomon people must have tried to express the summer and winter solstice and the vernal equinox in one monument. In many cases, main direction of features and the line from monuments to noticeable high mountains around there agreed with sunrise and sunset on the summer and winter solstice. The direction of sunrise and sunset on the vernal equinox calculate by both solstices. This attitude indicate that Jomon people took the matter important.In addition these facts, it is assumed that three peaks had important meaning for world view of Jomon people in Kanto district. At Ushiis stone circle, the direction from there to Mitsutouge Yama indicate the direction of sunset on the vernal spring equinox, and we confined similar relation at some sites in Annaka city from where we could see Myougi mountain that also has three peaks.2, Toru Miyao studied about the formation process of stone circles, such as Komakino, Isedoutai, Ohyu, and revealed each stone circle was formed by placing two small groups of stone arrangements both opposite side of circus.