Abstract
I selected Toyo rural district in Ehime province and studied the changing process of the villages, especially concerning with landowners before the W.W. II.
In my study, I used the materials of 17 landowners who held 50 hectares and over in 1924. We must notice that most of them were already small landowners and merchants in the last days of Tokugawa Era. I could trace also fully the developing process of two landowners out of them. Their developing process carried with it the falls of many small and a few large landowners in that district. And they had established their domination system in the village after the middle of Meiji Era. One of them could hold its domination system down to the Land Reform after the W.W. II.
