ln post-war Japan, many people who had studied specially about Japanese religion/folklore had firm belief that there had been the faith or heart of the  Japanese which would never change eternally. Of what kind of genealogy of thought, had such belief been derived ? This paper  aims to givean answer to this question by analyzing "Gorai Shigeru's" Folklore as a typical discourse which represents such belief, and to think reflexively the nature of religion /folklore studies in post-war Japan. Although "Gorai Shigeru" had learned much from "Yanagita Kunio"'s Folklore,  their discourses on the faith of the Japanese are so different from each other. "Gorai"'s thought about Japanese religion was prescribed by the epistemology of  the theory about national morals which had been so popular in the academic world in pre-war Japan, and the theory about Japanese Spirits constructed by "Kihira Tadayoshi". Researches which explore the relations between educations or thoughts in pre-war Japan and religion/folklore studies in post-war Japan are very little  until now. This paper tries experimentally to go on such research, based on a totally new hypothesis, so its purpose is especially issue-provoking one.

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