山林所有の變化に伴なう村落社會構造の地域的差異について—大井川・安倍川上流山村た於ける例—

抄録

The author investigated some village at the upper streams of the River Oi and Abe, Shizuoka Prefecture. Consequently I understood that tie internal social relation of the village at the upper stream of the river was extremely different from that of the village at its lower stream. I also noticed that the difference in the possession of forests was greatly related to the difference in the social relation as a result of an investigation in regard to the possession of forests in each village. Having researched how the difference in their possession occured in those villages, I observed that ultimately it had been caused by the geographical conditions of facility or difficulty of trafic (communication), the difference in agricultural productivity etc.
I could understand that at the lower stream of the river, the forests were mnonopolized by a few men who lived in the village, while in the upper stream: of the river, they had been trausfered to timber merchants or other ones who were outside those villages. It was also known that the difference in the powers of the forest-owners had caused the difference in the social relation in each village.