SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HURE AND KOJU AND SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF DISPERSED SETTLEMENTS : A study on land use and spatial structure of dispersed settlements in Iki Island Part 2

Abstract

There are dispersed settlements all around Iki Island. "Hure" is an agricultural community and "Koju" is a group for belief in the neigbourhood. They support isolated families in dispersed settlements with their social bands. Spatial structure of "Hure" setllements is considered a cluster whitch consists of sets of "wind breaker + dwelling lot + front field" as its unit. There are many buildings in a dwelling lot consisting of a main house, a retreat, a cookig hut, cowsheds, barns, drying huts of tabacco plants etc. Conserving the units should be very important for keep of living space and environment of the settlements form the viewpoint of ecology.