Abstract
This paper discusses the design of tsuzukima type farmhouses from historical point of view, and investigates the successive and developing process of it. At first the farmhouse design concerning social status in the early Meiji Period were defined from the references and the survey of ruins. Next, the hierarchy and the changing process were found by the survey of ruins from Meiji period to the present. The developing stage of the following two tsuzukima types were different until the 30th of Showa. One was composed of the eight tatami-mats type with six tatami-mats type and the other was composed of two eight tatami-mats room type. The former was regarded as the higher social status.
