The aim of this paper is to present the historicity of religious space from the view of Folk-Religion. In this point of view, we can grasp the religious space in the dynamic process which is formed by the concrete phases where on one hand the authorities of religion create meaning to space, on the other the beliefs of normally living people do so at the same time. As the case example, I adapt Jinjaengi which is a record dealing with the origins a shrine and of its connection with the deity enshrined at a shrine (saijin), and the relation of the ritual surrounding that deity as well as supernatural stories related to the shrine and its deity. There is an implicit religious cosmology within a ritual, and the ritual is the symbolic system representing it dynamically. Through practicing a ritual, a religious cosmology links real places inscribed Jinjaengi such as the visitation of shrine saijin, which produces the religious space. In order to investigate, I focus on the policies in early Meiji era, especially the unstable shrine administrative practices before 1900 and the preservation policy of ancient shrines and temples. Within that process, one large shrine (taisha) in one local area, Keta jinja in Ishikawa prefecture, insists on the upper lank among the many shrines in Japan and intends to justify shrine's history. The agents of those shrine's attempts were the religious intellects of shrine (shinshoku), and they restructured the old-fashioned narratives of shrine history into narratives measured up to history of modern state. So we can understand the historicity of folk-religious space in early Meiji era.

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