Abstract

This study aims to clarify details of uniform townscape in Kyoto city under the Tokugawa regime. This paper deals with relation between the plastering front exterior wall of town house and the administration by Kyoto machibugyosho (magistrate of Kyoto). Official notices notified by Tokugawa shogunate permitted in use of roofing clay tile and mud coat wall for fire protecting in 1720. Nevertheless, mud coat wall for fire protecting was not spread wide use in Kyoto. Because of that, Kyoto machibugyosho was not enforced in use of roofing clay tile and mud coat wall for fire protecting on citizens.

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