Abstract
Through an analysis of records of pilgrimage to Koyasan, this paper will examine modes of lodging usage both on the mountaintop and at its foot, and go on to consider shifts in spatial awareness. (1) Regarding the Koyasan pilgrimage and lodgings of Fujiwara Michinaga and Yorimichi, after introducing the Koyasan gosankeiki held by the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo, a better text than the published one covering the pilgrimage of Yorimichi in 1048, I will examine the notations therein that logistics were insufficient, that Okunoin was located in the vicinity of Kongobu-ji, and that Kobo Daishi's grave was called a byodo. (2) Regarding the pilgrimages of cloistered emperors to Koyasan and their lodgings, I will discuss how at the time of the pilgrimage of cloistered emperor Shirakawa in 1088 wooden sotoba and a rest area at Kasagi were in place, and lodgings on the mountain were called Chuin; at the time of the pilgrimage of cloistered emperor Toba in 1124 the lodgings of his attendants were still grass huts, and the byodo was called Okunoin; and at the time of the pilgrimage of the both cloistered emperors Shirakawa and Toba in 1127 there was more organization of facilities as their attendants then stayed in the chambers of the monks, and there were changes in the spatial awareness of the mountaintop areas. There were lodgings at the administrative offices at the foot of the mountain, and unlike the Kumano pilgrimage the lodgings at Shitenno-ji, the foot of the mountain, and the mountaintop were a unique characteristic.
