Abstract
We can find out fourteen sourcebooks of Japanese mansion design in architectual reference books of Kaga-Kenninji school which derived from "Sakagami-ke" and "Yamagami-ke". In this paper, we intend to clarify the bibliography of each book and to analyze the contents of that. As a result, we are able to draw out the following conclusion; the original of sourcebooks of Japanese mansion design for Kaga-Kenninji school were written in the mid of seventeenth century, then were ajusting gradually and reached zenith of development in the first half of eighteenth century.
