Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clearfy the structural principle of the settlements through the analysis of the relationship between the space structure of the settlements and holiness or ritual. This paper examines examples of the settlements which have the storehouses in the dispersed form or the clustered form in Tsushima. This paper also makes a comparative study of the structural principles in 2 types of the settlements (the one with a group of storehouses, the one with a disperesed or clustered form of storehouses), The summary of the results is as follows : The settlements which have the storehouses in the dispersed form or the clustered form in Tsushima are composed under the coherent structural principle derived from the "Holiness-Secularity-Pollution" space cognition based on the "Upper-Lower" notion as almost the same way of the settlements which have a group of the traditional storehouses.
