The famine disasters attacked the Northeast Japan partly including the Central Japan in the late Shogunate (1750s, 1780s, 1830s, and 1860s).
The writer investigates the number of victims who starbed to death in those lean years and other problems through “kakocho” of several temples, and concludes as follows:
1) The famine disasters in 1830s showed the widest suffered areas, it included the whole areas of the Northeast and the Central Japan.
2) The core area suffered from the starbation almost accord with Dfa, the climatic pattern of Köppen.
3) The rural areas suffered much more from starbation than urban areas.
4) Common people of urban areas suffered more from starbation Samurai people.
5) More adult men died than children in all starbed districts.

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Japanese feudal villages in the Shogunate had the duty to submit each village map and yearly statistics including housholds, population, livestocks, field area with its harvests and fertility, and irrigation system to the local administrators. Especially with respect to the village map a new administrator, in spite of yearly submission ordered to submit a revised map.
The writer shows in this paper an example of the village map in the abolition of the feudal clans in 1869. The autholities Shinagawa Prefecture, Tokyo Metropolitan Area in the present, ordered to submit each village map according to the abolition of the feudal system. However, each village was obliged to submit an old map because of the sudden order. Therefore, The prefectural authorities orderd again to revise them four times in 1869. An example of the last edition, a map of Kyodo-Zaike village, shows the village statistics in the blank space of map. This is a special type of the sudmition. The other examples of the prefecture show almost the same pattern and they are rare examples of the reports of village status in the abolition period.

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