Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers
Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Autumn 2002
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Distribution of wind festival and that of temple in Hokuriku District and Japan
Yoshio Tagami
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“Kaze-no-miya”, wind shrine, is distributed over the Toyama Plane and wind festival is done in summer. Wind festival is called as “Kaze-no-bon” and is done with a priest. In a temple of the Kannon, the Jizou, the Fudo and the Yakushi, they are considered as the God of water, God of the ground, God of the mountain and God of the sea. There are much similarity the profit of the wind festival and that of these temples. In Hokuriku District, a lot of these temples are distributed, too. But, there is something difference between the area where wind festival is distributed over, and the area where these various temples are distributed. The constitution ratio of each temple is low in one Hokuriku District but it is high in Shikoku District. There is a little wind festival in a Shinto shrine in Shikoku District. It may be caused by the constitution ratio of these various temples is high in there.
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