2008 年 33 巻 p. 33-41
Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami caused tremendous damages not only to visible economic losses, but to invisible local culture and tradition. This paper aims at analyzing the relations; how the local cultural arts contribute to disaster rehabilitation in social capital prespective including bonding, bridging and linking social capitals. Primary data was collected through questionnaire survey and group interviews to five local cultural preservation societies in Karakuwa, Miyagi prefecture. This paper finds the local cultural arts acts as social capitals to strengthen the bonds and trusts among the local people in the recovery processes, build the network and make connections with outside, however the relations of disaster rehabilitation and local cultural arts clearly differ by each preservation society.