Abstract
The objective of this study is to construct a model of the archetypes of spatial schema
that work as frames by which one understands the one’s experience of environment. The
authors are trying to find the spatial schema as follows; 0) to experience a certain envi-
ronment in a real field, 1) to make a collection of notes with pictures expressing one’s
experience of environment, 2) to find the structure organizing the collection by KJ
method, 3) to interpret the titles of the groups of the notes made during KJ method
with respect to the spatial relations, and 4) to illustrate the results of interpretation
in terms of visual diagrams. This paper shows an example of the above-mentioned
process, which is performed in Harie village in Shiga prefecture as a real field. From
the experiences in Harie, the authors found three kinds of spatial schema, which are
metaphorically named as “spiral”, “overlap of domains”, and “stationary waves = elec-
tron model”.
