Abstract
This paper is concerned with a direction of front rooms of a main house in villages located in a flat. The superior orientation of a front rooms in each village is different from the condition of location. In villages standing along a sea side, the superior orientation is almost southerly through all Okinawa. In villages not standing along a sea side, it is from southerly to westerly, southerly in Okinawa Main Island district and Yaeyama district, westerly in Miyako district. Others besides superior orientation are classified into three, right direction, left direction and rear direction. There are seven facors to be three directions, 1). process of building up a village-right and left, 2) convention-right, 3) size of structure of a main house-right, 4) condition of a land abutting road-right, left and rear, 5) form of a land-right, left and rear, 6) main road horizontally lying-rear, and 7) sea locating in the east of a village-right. Among seven factors, the fourth is most superior to three directions.
