Abstract
In many societies, especially in traditional societies, relations among god(s), the dead and living people construct essential parts of social realities. In some cases, such relations are not only religious but also political. Gods and the dead are political media which bring normative effects on society.
In this paper, I will analyse a spatial structure of a Japanese local city (totoumifuchu-mitsuke in Shizuoka prefecture) of the Ancient and the Medieval Period, and attempt to reconstruct religious and political relations among gods, the dead and living people in the city.