Abstract
The writer researched the population movement in feudal days by the records, Munatsukecho, viz. census registers in 1811, preserved at the town office of Tomioka. The results may be summarized as follows:-
1) The immigrants into the town are mostly from the neibouring districts, within the circle of 41 kin. from the town.
2) The emmmigrants out of the town moved mostly to the larger towns, for example Tokushima, or to fishing villages along the south-eastern coast, or to mountainlands, and few moved into the neighbouring agricultural villages.
3) The families emigrated into the town are generally not well off. They live in rented houses and live from hand to mouth by means of daily empl oyments or vending the odds and ends. This shows the miserable conditions of the farmers in those days. They are obliged to leave their native lands to be satisfied with the bitter conditions in the town. Neverthless immigrants increased every year.
4) Most of the emigrants are of branch families.
5) Town families were smaller in number of their men Ibers compared to those of agricultural villages at that time, but contained more collate-ral families than the latter. The rate of youth was lower than that of elder generation.
