Abstract
The purpose of this study is to consider the characteristics of urban space in Kyoto based on the analysis of the distribution of small ritual facilities on the streets which called zizou. Zizou was not paid enough attention as a core of urban space because of its small size and complicated origins. But from the viewpoint of urban community organization, zizou can be the important element of urban community for it is worshiped by inhabitants everyday. Locations of zizou reflect the common consciousness of community because they are distributed on the streets where they consider it suitable to pray up to the present. And now we can find out several types of locations of zizou. This paper clarifies what zizou means in the urban space and how these types of locations took part in the organizing urban space in kyoto.
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