TRADITIONAL LANDSCAPE AND SPECIFICATION OF RURAL VILLAGE BY HISTORICAL LAND USE : Case study on Shirakawa-Mura Ogimachi preservation district for groups of historic buildings

Abstract

The purpose of the research is definition about the view which is traditional with the grasping of the change of the land use in Ogimachi being based. As the way, it connected more than one sheet of character figures of the middle of Meiji and then it grasped land use in the Meiji period in Ogi-machi while consulting amount of literature and it grasped a traditional view. That it was possible to grasp is as the following. Because of the severe climate, spatial order was concluded by the unique water system in Ogi-machi as the rational life can be led. A method of the analysis which became in the clarifying in this paper can be utilized for the efforts that is decided a scene management plan of the rural farm village landscape in the future.