抄録
From the 17th century onwards, new agricultural villages were planed and developed for farmers who left their mother villages and carried out land reclamation to open new farmland. An investigation was conducted in village called Santome New Village which is located west of Tokyo and was created at the end of the 17th century. Each farmer in the village was given land 75 meters wide and 675 meters long, and a little thached house was built facing the road. At the back, a field and a small wood were located. Today, the whole site reached a kind of climax which presented a spatial totality in which the house, at its center, was surrounded by the shelter trees, followed by the field and further by a small wood at the far end. This was the result of the everyday, activities of each farmer.
