The purpose of this study is to develop of two - demensional map of the outdoor education with considering the concepts of "education" and "Yagai reinterpreted by Fudo, or climate”.

The Y-axis was shown vector of “intentional education” and “non- intentional education”.

Also,the X- axis had a vector of “Yagai”.

In addition, supplementary triangle diagram for the “Yagai” has been created that was composed three elements by physicality, locality and the history.

The leaders can understand their own practice by using of the two - dimensional map and diagram.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the functions of the adventure education as initiation by comparing processes and structures of the adventure education and initiation rites. The results of the comparison showed that, while there were some partial differences, the following points were found as their similar aspects :1) Intentions to participate are voluntary, 2) The both are held in special places such as mountains and wilderness, which are away from their everyday lives, 3) Participants form some small new groups and have a feeling of comraderies, 4) Participants are assigned to have tasks which are mentally/physically difficult and challenging, 5）Participants suffer strong mental and physical stress, and it temporarily cause a non-adaptive state, 6) Participants overcome the maladaptation state and challenges,7) Leaders are the ones who mentally support the participants by encouraging them,8) Participants review their own experiences and realize that the experiences have had some meanings to them, and 9) There are series of experiences in which the participants leave their normal living environment, overcome difficult experiences, and then return to their normal lives with their own meaningfulness of the experiences. Therefore, the adventure education functions as an initiation that promotes individual transformation and growth.