Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of riverside utilization by Edo commonality and the riverside routes of recreational wandering in the Edo era to clarify what role the watersides plays in people's wandering. The source of data was Koten Rakugo, which saw their forms established from the end of the Edo to the Meiji era and were written against the background of the manners, customs, and social system in Tokyo in the early Meiji era retaining the vestiges of Edo. Fifty routes of wandering were extracted from 87 Koten Rakugo stories dealing with watersides and waterside wandering and were classified into 5 main courses of typical wandering pattern. Next, the patterns of wandering were classified into 5 types in terms of effects of waterside constituent factors on wandering to characterize wandering according to type.
