Ueda house built in 1934, Hashimoto, Wakayama still has four construction documents. The documents proves several economical points of building Ueda house, as follows; 1. The building costs were 5,418.44 yen. 2. The donations consisted of money and articles. The articles could be converted into money, as a result the donations totally valued approximately 576 yen, which was 10.6% of the building costs. Building construction in the end of modern times must be based on monetary system; however this case study of Ueda house indicates that the mutual support in early modern times still remained as donations.
