1999 Volume 64 Issue 519 Pages 271-278
"Yamada Danchi" is a company housing for the executives of Besshi Station of Sumitomo Metal Mining & Co. ltd. etc. The purpose of this study is to make clear states of its history and housing planning. Kageji Washio, a managing director of Bessi Station, planned Yamada Danchi along "Kabu-tetsudo" Mining Railway Line in industrialization of companies. There are about 250 Japanese-style houses with hedges. Its concepts, which he insisted on, are mainly measures of dampness. Totally, the characteristics of this project are both sides of company housing and suburban housing in the early Showa era.
