Abstract
The purposes of this article are to measure two traditional Japanese houses in Hikawa town, Kumamoto and to make the drawings in order to record. They were damaged by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, and at present, they were dismantled at public expense. We analyzed the result of the investigation and clarified the characteristics. The Ito family house was a good example of Kudo-zukuri in the Edo era. M family house was interpreted Kudo-zukuri in the Meiji era. The latter had the characteristics of the house of an important family who had employed tenants.
