Abstract
My previous article, A Study on the Architectural Manuals "Tana-hinagata"-Part 1, clarified the fact that the wood block prints played an important role with regard to the completion of the architectural manuals called "Tana-hinagata"; one architectual manual which belonged to this category of "Tana-hinagata" in the beginning of the Edo era remains as a set, which I have termed the "Shijuhachi-tana-kei". However, "Tana-hinagata", by the end of the Edo era, had gradually come to be composed of three groups, including "Hoka-gojuni-tana-kei" and "Zatsuroku-kei" in addition to "Shijuhachi-tana-kei". The process of the development and utilization of "Tana-hinagata" is explicated in this paper.
