2006 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 31-38
This paper aims to explain the types of housing in Fukue, Goto City in Nagasaki Prefecture, and to offer a theory on the organization of living space in these houses. In the field survey, 158 residences in seven farming villages were covered by the analysis. A field survey on the residents' lives was also conducted. A traditional viewpoint with two right-angled axes was introduced for the analysis of housing, and the spatial axes of each “kuchi” and “oku” in four areas were extracted and verified. The result shows that “four-room type” and “middle corridor type” are popular in Fukue; the housing type evolved into the middle corridor type in and after 1975. Besides, the space in housing are based on the structural principle with spatial axes of “kuchi” and “oku” which exist in the two right-angled axes of “front and back” and “top and bottom.”
