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This article is a report of the findings in a house of the Maegawas located on the Kinome mountain pass of Tsuruga-city. Hokurikudo way through along the Kinome mountain pass for a long time and this place was the doorway of the Echizen district. The household of Maegawas acted as the post called Otyayaban of the Fukui feudal clan and kept watching the passers of the Hokurikudo way. Maegawas house have the traditional room called Gyokuza where the Fukui feudal lord take a break. We clarified the following things through the investigation this house, 1) Maegawas house was built in the middle of the Edo era, 2) Maegawas house is the valuable historic house which exist in the descript of Fukui prefecture.

Okinawa and Jeju Island located at the southern most geographically and resemble it historically. I considered similarity and the difference of both islands based on the results of research. A common point of Okinawa and Jeju Island is that there are more rain and typhoons than the mainland. Therefore both islands had various wisdom in a house to prevent those damage. For example, as a common factor of both islands, it is the stone wall around the site. These stone walls are similarities of the village landscape of both islands. However, It is different in the materials of the stone wall. A thing of Jeju Island is a basalt and is a coral stone in Okinawa. After all it is the difference in condition of the soil of both islands, and this is the local unique culture. The common point in the placement plan of both islands accepts south periodic wind in summer. Jeju Island has a Korean stove and a dirt floor conveyed by the mainland for winter heating. It becomes in both islands in Okinawa that a central room does not have a dirt floor that totally different. As a result, I clarified characteristic of the village and the traditional house in both areas.

新潟県旧燕市の町家を対象に、その室空間構成と、燕の町家における住まい方を調査・分析する事でその地域性を明らかにする。燕の町家では、ミセやドマの使い方によって吹抜けの有無や室の配列の違いなど、室空間構成が変化していた。燕においては、接客空間における採光の確保・床の間の配置といった格の維持や、階段からの動線といった住まい方は変わらないが、ミセやドマの使い方に対応して室の配置や機能が異なるということを明らかにした。