Abstract

“Jinaicho” is a general term for moated towns founded by the devotees of the Jodo-shinshu, a sect of the Buddhism, at the end of the medieval times. This study restores the 18th century’s town plan of the Ishinden-Jinaicho, Mie Prefecture, which was built around the Senju-ji, the head temple of the Takada-order in the Jodo-shinshu, and explains the characteristics of its spatial pattern typologically in comparison with five other jinaichos in the neighboring prefectures.