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In 1978 and 1979, B. Fuglede and T. Ishihara independently showed the notion of harmonic morphism and characterized it in terms of harmonic maps and horizontal conformality. The author gives a discrete analogue of a mapping between two graphs preserving local harmonicity. The author considers a graph as a discrete analogue of a Riemannian manifold. He shows that \(\phi\) is a harmonic morphism map from \(V_1\) onto \(V_2\) if and only if \(\phi\) is horizontally conformal. Here \(G_i(V_i,E_i)\) are two graphs, which are the collection of the set \(V_i\) of vertices and the set \(E_i\) of edges connecting two vertices. Moreover, he shows a relationship between the Green kernels of two infinite graphs, one of which is the domain graph and the other is the target of a harmonic morphism. Many examples, including coverings, non-complete extended \(p\)-sums, and collapsings, are given in this paper. More results on the spectra of harmonic morphisms may be found in [\textit{T. Tsuruta}, Univ. Tokyo, Master's thesis (1998)]. For more related papers see \textit{B. Fuglede} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 28, 107-144 (1978; Zbl 0339.53026)], \textit{T. Ishihara} [J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 19, 215-229 (1979; Zbl 0421.31006)], and a recent preprint by the author. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00036].