抄録
From the early stages of Edo Period, the Tokugawa Government has enforced regulations on housing. This thesis attemps to analyze one major piece of regulation of the late Edo Period and its dominating effects on architectural design on houses of "Chonin" (those who lived in cities and were not Samurais). The regulation strictly prohibited Chonins using Samurai housing styles. However, the government mandated exclusive use of Samurai housing styles to a few sects of the upper class Chonins. These selected Chonins included town officials, merchants serving the higher ranking Samurais, and doctors. Although Sukiya designs were used exclusively by members of upper class Chonins in their villas and certain restaurants, they were denied this privilege when the Housing-Style Limitation Act was passed in Tempo 14 preventing even the upper class Chonins from Sukiya design housing.
