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The Filter Effects of a Boundary to the Foreigner's Funeral Culture in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06680145
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Human geography
Research InstitutionKAGAWA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

INADA Michihiko  KAGAWA UNIV., Education, Professor., 教育学部, 教授 (70133155)

Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1995
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
KeywordsForeigners cemetery / the process of culture change / funeral and grave system / border / filter effects on cultural changes / 外国人墓地 / 葬制・暮制文化 / フィルーター作用 / 墓制・葬制文化
Research Abstract

There had been many foreigners lived in Japan. Some of them had died and buried in Japan. Their corpse are buried in accordancd to the homeland culture as possible. In early stage of Foreign cemetery of Japan, the foreigner wanted to make a grave as a homeland culture style. Western people made the cemetery under their customs in Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, Hakodate, and ather places. But their homecountry changed their customs espesially in Britain, so the cremated numbers increased to the burials. They didint make graves for the crmated dead person in many times, they bury the born ashes into the memorial garden, or scattered on anonym garden. But western foreigner made graves, they didnt do cremate in Japan. Chinese people made some cemeteries in Japan. At first they wanted to two times funerals as thir homeland. They buried the body at first time, some years later they diged the borns, and buried in another place. In many cace t / send the borns to China. This systems changed to the system like a Japanese grave style recently. They made the mixed funeral culture of Chinese and Japanese, in living Japan. The Korean people didnt made a own cemetery in Japan. They had a strong tie totheir homeland. Many Koreans send to the dead body or borns to their home country, in where they made a graves. The Koreans changed also, they made some cemetery in Japan.
The culture of racial groupe accepted the efects of the diffrent culture in living on other country. They made some new mixed culture, homeland culture and living place's culture. At that case the boundary make a filter effects to the cultral change.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1995 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1994 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All Other

All Publications (4 results)

  • [Publications] 稲田道彦: "イギリスの宗教と墓地の変化" 「死の文化史と宗教」平成7年度教育研究特別経費報告書,香川大学. (印刷中). (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Michihiko INADA: "The change process of the British cemetery. in "The culture and religion about the death"" KAGAWA University. (1966)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 稲田道彦: "イギリスの宗教と墓地の変化" 「死の文化史と宗教」平成7年度教育研究特別経費報告書,香川大学. (印刷中). (1996)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 稲田道彦: "墓地移転とその要因-高松市の萬日墓地を事例にして-" 「生と死に関する総合研究」平成6年度教育研究特別経費報告書香川大学. (印刷中). (1995)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1994-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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