Abstract
This paper is concerned with a direction of front rooms of a main house in villages located in a slope and a base of a mountain. In villages located in a easy slope toward easterly, southerly, and westerly, the superior orientation of front rooms in each village corresponds with the descending direction. But, in case of a easy slope toward northerly, it does not correspond with the descending direction. The superior orientation is southerly or easterly. On the other hand, in villages located in a base of a mountain, the superior orientation of front rooms, is different by the location of a mountain. In case of locating easterly, the superior orientation is southerly. But, in case of locating northerly, southerly, and westerly, it is always the direct opposition to a mountain. Others besides superior orientation are classified into three, right direction, left direction and rear direction. In villages located in a slope, there are seven factors to be either of three directions, 1) convention-right, 2) size of structure of a main house-right, 3) direction of wind-left, 4) main road horizontally lying-rear, 5) slopes of more than two-right and left, 6) condition of a land abutting road-right, left and rear, and 7) form of a land-rear. On the other hand, in villages located in a base of a mountain, there are four factors, 1) convention-left, 2) mountain located easterly and two mountains-left and rear, 3) condition of a land abutting road-right, left and rear, and 4) form of a land-left and rear.
