Abstract
There are 41 volumes of architectural manual about the overall constructions in "Oraibon" which has used as the elementary texts (biginners'texts) till the Meiji era. In this paper, the authors studied the bibliography and contents of these 41 architectural manuals in "Oraibon". We obtained the following conclusions. The architectural manuals in "Oraibon" are classified into 8 types. The type "Kenchiku Oraikei III", originated from "banpo hasiratate banjoorai", is the main lineage among them. In a historical prosess, the architectural manuals in "Oraibon" can be grouped into two periods : formative period in the late of Edo era, the popularization period in the Meiji era.
