THE STRUCTURE OF A MODERN CASTLE-TOWN

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  • 近世城下町の都市域構造—近世城下町の都市域構造とその変質について (1)—
  • キンセイ ジョウカマチ ノ トシイキ コウゾウ キンセイ ジョウカマチ ノ トシイキ コウゾウ ト ソノ ヘンシツ ニ ツイテ 1

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A modern castletown was a typical town characterized by different social rankings of its inhabitants, and at the same time it was a town under the privileged few. From this fact there arose the system of segregation in quarters resided by retainers and merchants and the emergence of a specially privileged town-section, which present us with a subject for study. “Samurai-machi” and “chonin-machi” confronted each other in social rankings, but economically they were united, and from this confrontation and unity a type of castle-town came to exist, However, Street-village-shaped “machi, ” and mass-shaped “machi” formed the core and to this were added “samurai-machi” and “tera-machi”; thus forming four stages and eight types in its development. Attention must be called to the fact that what is mentioned above shows various stages of development of the castle-town.<br> In the castle-town which was under the privileged few, the system of regional trade monopolization and the establishment of “dogyo-machi” (inhabited by traders of one kind) become a subject for study. Especially in “machiza” and “kabunakama” which were connected with merchants who had special rights the center of the castle-town was formed. Thus the function of the center of the castle-town was specialized and diversified. While in a small castle-town, the above mentioned development was not observed.

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