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This paper researches the accentuation of Kochi City dialect and 4 dialects near to Izuta shrine, Kochi prefecture, presenting new evidence for the reconstructed forms suggested by Uwano (2006), including the form of type 7b of 3 mora nouns. The accentuation of the 4 dialects is similar to the Churin Tokyo Shiki (CTS for short) and generally shows the oldest states of CTS while their characteristic type-mergers of nouns reveal that they are not CTS. The differences probably derive from the difference of phonetic strength of the mora-internal fall of word-final accent kernels.