ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan

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School songs of primary schools in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, were collected / analyzed in order to understand relationship between regional environments and the schools. Environmental elements sung in the songs could be divided into elements of three categories. Mountains and rivers in school's vicinity are most often sung among natural elements. Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines are so among historico-cultural elements. Farming landscape is so among economic elements, whereas industrial or commercial elements are hardly sung. It was observed that expressions of subjective elements, or pupils themselves and the schools itself, have shifted historically. Similar historical change was also observed on expressions which describe relationship between the school region and the country or the world. Number of environmental elements sung in the schools songs is decreasing recently because of two reasons. Firstly, number of the schools itself is decreasing. This tendency is resulting less numbers of the songs may survive in future. Secondly, newly appearing songs have a tendency not to sing environmental elements with identical place names in the region. The latter tendency is increasing the more vague description of regional environments.

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