ON AN HOUSE AND A LOT IN KYOTO OF THE EARLY EDO PERIOD : A reexamination with the regulation on the premises trade through the laws of Chou-shikimoku and machi-fure

Abstract

This paper thrashes out the differences between a house and a lot in Kyoto of the early Edo period. "le" was a house. "Yashiki" was a lot. "Ie-Yashiki" was premises with a house and a lot. The trade of "Ie-Yashiki" was regulated through the laws. When the words in the laws was not "Ie" but "Ie-Yashiki" or "Yashiki", the title to premises had to be proven outside the community to which they belonged. The paper concludes that the original form of "Ie-Yashiki" was the premises which consisted of houses and a lot that was not divided in strips.