Abstract
This paper is one of a series of works in which I intend to clarify the carpenter's party by doing a research of it's history through many doccuments left by a capenters family in Osaka. I will discuss in this paper the organization of the carpenter's party in Osaka. The summary is as follows : In the age of the carpenter's pary in Osaka which consisted of 24 parties called "kumi" or "muyori", the organization called "Onaka" which consisted of "Daikudosiyori", "Jonenban" and "Kanjokata" managed a federation of their own. "Daikudoshiyori" was not only the head of the federation but also the checker of the building permits of temples and shrines in Settsu and Kawachi prefectures from 1696.
