Abstract
This paper is made out according to architechtural articles of the diary of Sanetaka Sanjonishi (1455-1537), and aims to clarify various architectural productions of residences of the nobility of that age as well as to learn the basical structure. The Summary is as follows : (1) Constructive process of residence was divided into main work and fitting work. The terms of payment to the workmen for main work was contract wages system and for fittings daily wages system. These two ways originates in the process of planning; the main work was advanced according to 'sashizu' (a simple ground plan) and the fitting work under the order's indication in detail. (2) Workmen and orders were bound by family-like relationship. This kind of access relationship is humanic and rather recent than the former dominate-subordinate relationship. (3) The organization of workmen consisted basically of family unit. Some of them had the official social position as the Shogunate workmen (Government workmen), and at the same time boud private relationship of this kind of family-like relationship with specially fixed person. (4) The wage of workmen was 110 (one-hundred-ten) mon, and this was the standard amount of that days in Kyoto. (5) Timbers were mainly bought from timber-dealers, but some part of them were supplied by the accommodation among the nobilities by a habitual mutual aid.
