Since 1724, Kofu castle city had been ruled by Tokugawa shogunate vassals named Kofu-Kinban. In the beginning, because of its strategic importance, the space of the Kofu city was strongly controlled by Edo government, which was clearly seen in the banzuke (numbering) system of the samurai residential area. However, this Edo-centric system was absolutely inconsistent with the local logic of Kofu, and the structure of the city had to be changed gradually. This paper studied this change by analyzing how the banzuke system became meaningless.
