古代日本の「崇りのシステム」--律令国家における「崇り」の用例

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'Tatari'is one of the ideas of causality. The use of the term of 'Tatari'attributes the occurence of a disaster to an expression of the intention of some god. The process of how to talk about tatari in the Ritsuryo era is generalized as follows. First, a disaster occurs and the government commands the charge sections - jingikan or onmyoryo - to divine the cause of it. Second, the diviners belonging to the sections find out the revelation that god's anger appeared as the disaster. Finally, the government expresses an apology to the god in order to soothe the anger and to end the disasters. This chain of thoughts and deeds were of use for society to control natural disasters which otherwise cannot be managed by human. In this paper, through a consideration of this "system of tatari" from three viewpoints, we examine some examples of tatari and the function of the tatari.