Abstract
Bise village is a planned, traditional village, which was established in the light of Feng Shui during the Ryukyu Kingdom Period. The village landscape features reticular veins of village roads with houses encircled by Fukugi trees. We chose to survey in Bise village in order to clarify the present structure of the habitat - embracing
Fukugi trees in the Feng Shui village. The village consists of squares of different size embraced by Fukugi trees. In
general, there were one to four parts inside the squares whose borders were delineated by Fukugi tree lines. Four types of residence units, Types 1 to 4 were categorized to refer to the residence unit s of 1 to 4 parts. Types 1, 2 and 3 were the most common cases, and Type 4 was the rarest cases. DBHs of all Fukugi trees surveyed ranged from 1 cm to 66.5 cm. The trees were estimated to range from 2 or 3 to 266 years old. The height of Fukugi trees which were taller than 1 m was very diverse. We also found a lot of seedlings and quite a few stumps in the Fukugi tree lines Thus, it might be assumed that the diversity of the sizes of Fukugi trees resulted from thinning of some mature trees and from some seedlings being kept during the hundreds of years since the village was established. From the size of the Fukugi trees, we could assume that the village was first settled in the center and then was extended to the coastal area with the increase of the population
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