Abstract
The supplementary work for the fishing is generally practiced in and around the fishing houses. In addition to the residential usage, the fishing houses have many kinds of functions such as places for storing fishing tools and repairing nets. In this paper the author studied the house plans and their functions in the fishing village of Hiruga, Eastern Wakasa Bay.
The following results were obtained:
1. It is clear that the private fishing houses have a greater storage capacity for fishing in comparison with the other types.
2. Hiruga is divided into four fishing villages, Higashi, Nishi, Hama and Onokuchi. The settlement began in Nishi village of Hiruga, because it is easy to avoid the severe northwest wind in winter. The weather conditions influence the formation of land division.
3. In both Higashi and Nishi fishing villages, families dealing with gill nets need the storage space on the first floor of a house. On the other hand non-fishing families use the same space for living.
4. The fishing village of Hama was developed after the Meiji Era. Originally the main agricultural land around Hama was used for paddy and upland fields. The diving fishery does not need much space for keeping tools, so space was allrcated in the main house.
In the villages where the rate of private fishing is very high, the space for keeping tools is located beside the sea or the lake. However in the case of villages carrying on large-scale pound net fishing, the storage space is not only separate beside the sea (or lake) but is also separate from the living area.
