Study on Space-Structure of the Hot-spring Resort in Edo and Meiji Era

Abstract

People in Edo and Meiji era staied for a long term at the hot-spring resort. People might be able to keep calm and not to grow tired there, because it had characters of clear space-structucture. The aime of this paper is to clear space-structure of the hotspring resort in those days by means of refering sketch maps, the other documents and field survey in Atami and Kusatu which was famous hot-spring resort in Edo era. As the result of this work, the whole image of space-strukture and mechanisms to organize own space from inside and outside was ascertained.