1. Tonami field is characterized by a fan shaped field sloped slightly and scattered villages in it and towns situated at the same intervals which are the center of economy and have a character of marketing town.
2. Development of the marketing town is traced by the requirement of developing human necessities.
It is conceived that the marketing town is formed by the economical necessities of the surroundig rural villages and with industrial planning by mercantile capitalists.
It was not arised naturally from scattered rural villages.
3. As to formation of the town, towns at the foot of the mountain and the field were formed by the Middle Ages and 3 towns in the middle part of the field were formed by the Recent Ages.
Classifying them b those character, they are (1) marketing towns situated at so called capital where there was a Lord with his castle, (2) marketing towns where market was opened at some special places (such as the area of shrine, temple or other special places), (3) marketing towns where market was opened for the benefit of travellers, (4) marketing towns in which most of the people engaged in commerce.
In spite of the above classification, most of the marketing towns have the same function and character at the present time.
4. Summarizing the process of the historical change of the marketing town, the character of the town, beening agricultural mainly and commercial supplementarily at the beginning, developed agricultural and commercial at the same degree, and then commercial mainly and agricultural supplementarily.
In the recent time, industry has been rised in the town and the form of economical circulation has been transformed from one way track to complicated tracks. i.e. At the beginning of formation of the town, the surplus of products of the town was sold to other area and the people lived on self-supporting and according to increase in populationand development of commerce and industry, peoples could nod live on self-supporting and they bought some kinds of goods from other areas and they sold their surplus of products to other peoples.
In Fukuno town, market is opened on 2nd, 7th, 12th, 17th, 22nd, 27th, in every month, and market opened on 27th of Decenber is noted for its prosperity.
5. The Tonami field, though it was civilized early in Etchu, showed little progress in her economical development for a long time under restrictions of natural and social circumstances. i.e. Heavy snow and long winter resulted in simple utilization of land under infantile method of agriculture, and tyranny of Lord compelled the people inactive. Since collapse of the feudal system, the economical conditions of the area has been rapidly improved in the whole. But it is noted that some towns are growing to the modern city setting up industries in order to overcome her economical difficulties popularized under the present capitalism, and the other hand, some towns are giving way to the difficulties and falling into poor agricultural villages.
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