This paper would consider the relationship between the neighborhood association (CHOU) and the way of land dealings in modern Kyoto. It has been proposed that CHOU intervened in the buying and selling of land, which was happened their territory KOKEN-CHI of the early modern age. However, it is not clear how the practice has changed during the modern age. Comparing the bylaws which CHOU made both at the early modern age and the modern age, modern bylaws was more stipulated in the trade procedure than the early moderns'. Hence, the process ruled by CHOU was remained as custom. This feature resulted from the new system for lands which the Meiji government made. CHOU provided detailed procedure to resist the new system and continued intervention in land dealings.
