THIS PAPER IS TO REVEAL HOW PEOPLE IN THE OLD TIME GRASPED THEIR ‘SPACE’ AND ‘PLACE’. FIRST，THIS STUDY BASED UPON THE ‘CENTER/FRINGE’THEORY，THAT DR.YAMAGUCHI PROPOSED, THEN MAKING A MODEL INCLUDING THAT THEORY. IT IS CONSISTED IN THE 3 AREAS OF PSYCHO. MEANING; INSIDE, BOUNDARY, AND OUTSIDE. THEN, ONE MEANING HAS THE ‘BINOMINAL-OPPOSITIONAL’ RELATION TO OTHERS UNDER THE INSTITUTION OF ITEMS; ORDERLY/DISORDERLY, MONO-SEMANTIC/BI-SEMANTIC AND TIME/TIMELESS. USING THIS MODEL AND LEGEND ANALYSIS METHOD PROPOSED BY DR.L.STRAUSS, IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THE WATERFRONT LEGENDS THAT WERE GATHERED IN THE KOHOKU AREA SHOWED WHICH PSYCHO. AREA THE PLACE APPEARED IN THE LEGEND WAS BELONGED TO, AND THE WATERFRONT LEGENDS HAVE THE FUNCTION CHANGING MEANINGS OF THE PLACES. ESPECIALLY, WHEN THAT FUNCTION WAS USED FOR THE WATERFRONT, WE UNDERSTOOD THAT WAS THE BOUNDARY, AND THEY HAD DESIRE TO MAKE THE BOUNDARY AREA INCLUDED TO THEIR OWN INSIDE.
