@article{oai:kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00012335,
 author = {松井, 幸一},
 journal = {東アジア文化交渉研究 = Journal of East Asian Cultural Interaction Studies},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {The formation process for villages in Ryūkyū differs from other regions and is
unique. Groups related through blood play an extremely important role in the establishment of a village and its social organization. Even today, patrilineally related groups, known as monchū, still exist. The essay explores the characteristics of the construction of space and village formation by focusing on the rituals and distribution of sacred ground in the blood-related villages and village formation on Kōri Island in northern Okinawa Prefecture. The distribution of the sacred grounds accounts for the present existence of sacred grounds known as utaki that are scattered around the villages. It is clear that blood-related groups once existed in the vicinity of these utaki. Specifi c consanguine groups successively inherited the responsibility of conducting the
rituals in a role known as kaminchu, a practice that still continues. It is therefore possible to identify the deep relationship between village formation and ritual. Similarly constructed rituals occur in different ritual spaces, which substantiates the idea that this ritual took shape with the consolidation of the Kōri villages.},
 pages = {371--388},
 title = {琉球における集落形成過程の一考察 : 古宇利島の聖地と祭祀を事例として},
 volume = {5},
 year = {2012}
}