Among the Street-names in Japanese cities, there are some special place-names, such as the name of a definite occupation, the place-names of the former residence. The author has criticized these two kind's of place-names, and attained to the several conclusions as follows.
1) These place names have a characteristic of the time, and then the place-names belong to the same kind distribute within a definite part of a city. By this reason we can distinguish one part of a city from its another according to the gradation of the growth of a city.
2) Both types of these place-names came into the world in the latter part of feudal ago, id. nearly in the time of A.D. 1550……1860.
3) The street-names indicating the place names of the former residences are almost given from the names of realms in Japanese feudal age and some from names of distinguished town in that period. According to these street-names he made one map as indicating in the Fig. 11. We can see the migration of population from one center of Kinki District which is showed by Kyoto, Osaka and Nara, to the northeast and the southwest of Japan, in the time of the past feudal age.

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The shallow lake Sliinainuma, between the hilly lands of Oomatsuzawa and Matsushima, has been reclamated for paddy agriculture from the early days of the Meiji Era. The initiative settlers built their houses on the most dry and high lands of the natural levee of B. Yoshida, and owned their farm land in the nearest areas around the Village. So, the settlers who then followed to the precursors were compelled to set their houses in the lower lands and to possess the farm land in the distant part of the area. In this procedure, the different conditions both in dwelling and farming were formed between earlyer and later settlers. The formers, most of whom come from neighbouring villages, take the advantage in following subjects. (1) They are relatively free from water flood and easily secured the good well for water drink in their dwelling. (2) They manage the near and well assembled arable lands. (3) The Acreage of managing farm lards is also usualy large in the case of them, while the laters, many of whom were born in the Various parts of Japan and suffer in the opposite conditions of the former, have still not been in so sucecssfull management. They make their efforts for inter-exchange of dispersed farm yards and for managing remote farm lands through the genealogical divergence of young families to cultivate such lands

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