A SURVEY ON SETTLEMENTS OF “GÔZOKU” (VILLAGE LORD) IN THE NORTH-EAST DISTRICTS, JAPAN

Abstract

A mansion of village lord (Gozoku-Yashiki) has become the core, from which a scattered settlement had been grown; the reserch made by Dr. Makino was an leading study, to which the writer would like to criticize.
Aaccording to his own investigation on the mansions of Gozoku in the north-eastern districts of Japan, it will be possible to find in a way the center point in their “Concentrated Villages”. He has an idea that especially in the north-eastern districts there are many types of the settlements of village lord.