Abstract
I attempted to understand the characteristics seen in the process of reclamation of the Kino River valley and its neighbourhood by means o comparing the landoutput per village in Kii-zoku-Hudoki with that in Keichyo-Kenchi-chyo, viz. the records of landoutput in 1613. Since the compilation of Kii-zoku-Hudoki was completed in 1839, the comparison of those two records means the comparison of the early period of Edo Age with the late period. Because almost all villages in Kii-zoku-Hudoki which are not found in Keichyo-Kenchi-chyo, had already established by the middle period of Edo Age, I presume that the comparison of those two records realy means the comparison of the early period with the middle. Of course, the landoutput might have increased after the middle period, but I think it was not so rapid it is highly probable that it tended to stagnation.
The fact that new reclamation of fields are not found in this region after the middle period with the some exceptions means that there were no historical and geographical posibilities for the reclamation and that this region which belongs to the Kinki-region had already been reclaimed and populated from former times.
