Abstract
1 Preface
The Atsumi Peninsula is located in the southernmost part of Aichi Prefecture and at the tip is the Irago Cape. The Irago Settlement, which was near the cape, was relocated in 1905 (the 38 year of Meiji) and 1906. The reason of the relocation was that the test site of the cannon called "Irago Test Site of the Army Institute of Technology" was expanded. Therefore the residences in the settlement were purchased by the army, and the settlement was relocated to the eastern side of the mountain.
I once published in a bulletin the results of my research on the residence arrangement in the Irago Settlement before the relocation and the life of the people there. In this paper, I explain how the site of the new settlement was decided and also study the spatial movement pattern of each residence. In addition, I study various happenings of the settlement relocation in chronological order.
2 Study Method
First, I showed the location of each residence in the old settlement on the map. Next, I showed the location of each residence in the new settlement. Then I linked each residence in the old and the new settlement by a straight line and showed the direction and the distance of the movement.
In addition, I read the documents describing the relocation and studied how the relocation was carried out in the chronological point of view.
3 Summary
I found out that spatial movements of the residences had no regularity.
According to the documents, the purchase agreement was completed before the order of the movements was given. I also found out that the sites of the new residences were the fields each family owned. The families who had no field in the new settlement got the site for the new residence by exchanging their fields with others.
