Abstract
Nijo castle have built at 1603 as a Kyoto in for Sho-gun. Its mansion-house of Ninomaru are an only example of the typical mansion-house at early Edo period, but to-day we can see the only Sho-gun's living-room, audience-hall, reception-room, entrance hall, kitchen and its service-room, not at all. Author introduce the unknown documents (a report and a plan on the inspection of Ninomaru mansion-house at 1686), and clear the next things in this article. (1) Ninomaru mansion-house have retained its all buildings at 1686. (2) But, there are reported that all buildings are breaking on the inspection at 1686. (3) The repair of main buildings have carried out from 1686 to 1692, and the buildings of waiting rooms, service-rooms, passage ways have broken out at the same time, (see Fig.3) (4) In the development of Ninomaru masion house, a significance of above-mentioned things are most. For we can understand the transformation of buildings from this time (1686) to to-day of from the foundation of buildings to this time.
