Abstract
This paper clarified the overall plan types of the folk dwellings in the early Meiji period located in Souraku-kita Village in Kyoto Prefecture. The clarification was made possible thanks to a document―chohatsu shirabetsuzuri which is also known as chohatsu bukken shiryo―which was compiled in 1883 on the basis of a land survey. The document describing the plan types in the village helped to establish a comprehensive overview of the folk dwelling plan types of the village during that period. The tworoom type accounted for about half of the houses in the village, and the four-room type homes accounted for about 20%. The latter were the dwellings for wealthy families. One-room type houses were about 20%. One limitation of the historical value of this document is that it is not possible to determine whether three-room type homes were originally three-room type or they had been remodeled into three-rooms from other plan types.
