The aim of this report is to understand dozoku in Nara prefecture and to grasp the dynamics of intra-family relation - ships in dozoku from the view point of yoriki system. Oyama is a village of 106 households, surrounded by mountains and located in north - east part of Nara prefecture, apart from Nara city. The inhabitants has been occupied mainly with a rice crop. But the acreage under cultivation of each family is very small. So, many inhabitants are forced to engage in side Jobs, especially tea manufacturing industries. Now, this industries rise in importance. With the advance of transportation system such as national highway and bus services, Oyama has undergone various social and economic changes. And so, family relationships within the community have tended to adjust themselves to these changes. Every family has at least a yoriki, which is, so to speak, a patron to each family. And every family is at the same time a patron and client. It depends on circumstances for each family to play the role of patron or client. The word yoriki designate the family(ie) which play very important roles not only in the funeral and the other ritual events but also in daily life. Yoriki - relationship between two families, in principle, continues over generations. Itto(dozoku) is a set of the families which recognize their relationships in terms of honke(stem family) and bunke (branch family). Today, only distinct function of ittoes in Oyama is the performance of the funeral. From the moment of the death, the members of itto take over the entire responsibility as a funeral association. There are 16 ittoes in Oyama. Of such ittoes, the most dominant Matsumoto - itto with a few influential bunkes as its leaders trys to reorganize the members by continuing the worship of its guardian deities, rearrangements of the gravestone based on family genealogy at the graveyard, while the hierarchical organization of Matsumoto - itto has rapidly disintegrated since its main honkes going away from the village.
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