Abstract
SHUKU is a old post-town, and SHUKUEZU is its drawing like town map. I got 22 SHUKUEZU of 11 SHU-KUs in KISO, the part of 67 SHUKUs of NAKASENDO; one of 5 main highways at the EDO period. SHUKUEZU exhibits outline of SHUKU's siteplan. That is the row of houses on both sides of road in SHUKU. We can find something about SHUKU from SHUKUEZU. For example, physical form of SHUKU, arrangement of houses, situation of each house, scale of each house and plan of some houses, etc. However, there are many various of SHUKU-EZU, we cannot find same thing in all SHUKUEZU. In this report, in the bigining I research the period when each SHUKUEZU was drawn and the reason why I think them drawn in given period. As a result of research, these SHUKUEZUs were drawn at the end of the Edo period, except only SHUKUEZU of NARAI. In the next, I research the purpose that these SHUKUEZUs were drawn. I understand 2 purpose. One of purpose, SHUKUEZU was the memorandum that they reported to public office. These reports is divided into 3 types, (1) general of report SHUKU, (2) special report of SHUKU's fire, (3) another special report of occupation of inhabitants in SHUKU. Another purpose, SHUKUEZU was the memorandum that lodging was alloted to lodginghouses and inhabitants' houses when public-passers or DAIMYO passed SHUKU. See the table, I summarized the above facts in it.
