Abstract
Many mark stones of the boundary still remain along the border between the two clans, Saga and Hasuike which was semi-independent and subordinate to the Saga. It is a strange case that such many stones were used for the boundary mark in the feudal Japan. In the early Shogunate, the Hasuike clan was established by the Saga lord as a subordinate one. However, the relation between these two clans was not friendly. When the Saga authorities found out the surplus territory of the Hasuike, the Saga confiscated almost of it in order to make up for their finance. The serious trouble occurred between these two clans. It came to an end in 1784. The Hasuike transferred most of the surplus of the territory to the Saga. At that time, the Hasuike built over 2000 border mark stones along the new boundary.After the Meiji Restoration many of those stones disappeared, but 60 still remain along the old border. The writer himself discovers them and shows in this paper the financial difficulties of feudal clans from the view point of the politico-economic geography.
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