Dogu-Hinagata (Japanese Traditional Furniture Reference Book) -the concept of architecture describe 317 kinds of furniture in 40 books. These furniture can be categorized into 14 functional groups like martial things, pleasure things, stationery, cooker and tableware, goods for tea and others. Through the analysis of items of contents, we recognized that there are patterns of constitutive items of representative furniture among these books. 12 items are originally written from old time and after that 32 items which involves 12 old items are dealt as the basic items of representative furniture for buke houses, and 24 items are basic to tea houses.
