自立自存的な生き方の探求

―京都府北部の高齢男性を例として―

抄録

  In this article, lives which coexist with nature and do not aim to gain material profit were examined interdisciplinarily from various perspectives by using the concept of minor subsistence.

   We observed the life of a man who lived such a life and conducted interviews with him for three years. He was eighty-five years old and lived in Yura, Miyazu City, Kyoto, Japan. Through this research, we considered how “lives coexisting with nature” and “lives of self-reliance” were led in modern society.

   After the research, we extracted his principles for everyday life and made a schematic. The schematic shows three elements concerning his way of living, seven other elements concerning his way of thinking, and five other elements concerning his behaviour. At the core of his everyday life, three other elements existed.

   His way of living, which is one of independence and self-reliance, provides us with a clue on how to achieve a sustainable society in coexistence with the natural environment. The schematic can be used as one of the guides for researches in other places.