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This paper forms a part of the studies on houses in Tottori and Okayama prefectures. These studies intend to outlook the differences between the houses in the districts along the shore of Nipponkai and those of Setonaikai at the west side of Kinki. This paper nests on the basis of the data obtained from the nesearch at Tunoimura, Kogecho, Hattocho, Wakasacho in the vicinity of Tottori City. Selecting more than 10 houses built in the 17th and 18th centuries, and restoring to their original shapes as can as possible according to the traces of original works, we explain the characteristics and the transitions of their plan and construction. The characteristics of these old houses are as following. Enery house has a oblong plan, and the front is long. One half (right or lift) is an earth floor, and in another half 3 rooms: One large hall along the earth floor, a drawing room (front side) and a bed room, (back side). In the corner (front side) of the earth floor a stable, and the back side of this stable a shed. Thus the house in devided into 4 parts: 1st diawing and bed room, 2nd hall, 3rd earth floor (a passage), 4th stable and shed. Pillars stand in the outside surrounding the house at intervals of 6.5 feet (flank and back side, and the front side of the earth floor where walls come, entervals of 3.25 feet), and on the 3 boundary lines of the 4 parts stand 3 rows of pillars. Beams are layed between these 3 rows of pillars across the rooms, and from the side pillars on to these beams. On these beams stand struts and with 3 rows of pillars support the roof beams, which are layed at intervals of 3.25 feet. On the roof beams come principal nafters and at the top of them nidge-pole.
