Abstract
1. Dispersed settlement is seen to be predominant at the Nagaoka Plateau, occupying the right side of the Mononobe River, which flows through northern Kochi plain.
2. Each Farmer's residence is surrounded by the antiwind trees on the north and east side to prevent the seasonal wind of winter and typhoon of summer.
Every residence is separated from each other by 30-300 meters.
3. The same family name is hardly found among the farmers, showing that the area is newly developed place, to which farmers immigrated from other places.
4. The area was pioneered by the people with the aid of Yamanouchi clan at the earlier period of the Edo era.
Pioneer privilege was acquired by the squire who made farmers pioneer. In consequence, the farmers won the permanent tenanting privilege.
5. The type of land-appropriation may be classified into three: Landowner type with agglomerated land around the residence and dispersed tenant lands. Tenant farmers type with dispersed small lands. Middle type, the middle class between the two given above. The first is the oldest historically.
6. The type of dispersed settlement has been maintained by the habitation of branch families.
7. The dispersed settlement, however, has been losing its pure type.
