1999 Volume 7 Pages 23-43,78
This study considered the relationship between the “raison de vivre” and the “natural play” (hiking/Wandervogel) of elder people, refferring to the concepts of Soushi's “shoyo-yu” (the way of the peripatetic life of Taoizum), Elikson's “wisdom” and Kamiya's “raison de vivre”, using the venous method of questionaires, participation observations, interviews, note/poems and videos.
As a result, the following points were clarified.
1) Participants to hiking/Wandervogel have active life style and strong nature oriented leisure style compering with the general elder people.
2) There are at least three value consciousness in the “raison de vivre” of these people. Those are the health promotion by “expasion of living mind and body”, the enlargement of his/her world by “involvement” in nature and other participants and the finding of new his/her own theme (the travel to self-identity) by the impression in bodily sansation with nature.
3) Hiking/Wandervogel as a natural play have significant possibility to link with the “raison de vivre” feeling of elder people.
