ON THE FORM OF BLOCK AND LOT : Study on plane composition of rural landscape in OKINAWA Part 6

Abstract

This report aids to clear the feature on form of block and lot in villages in Okinawa, on the basis of the direction of main rooms in a main house of a folk house. Presently, the villages with regular blocks occupy a little less than forty percents in all villages of Okinawa. The type of a transverse row occupys almost all of the regular blocks. Many of the numbers of lot are from two to four, and more than five is less among the type of a transverse row. The beginning of the villages with regular blocks is presumpted in 1737. The regular blocks end in the two lots of a transverse row passing through each two stages of the type of a transverse row and the type of Tanoji. The form of a lot begins at a square, and next passing through the oblong mixed of long sideways and short sideways, finally proceeds to the oblong of long sideways.