Abstract

This study aims to clarify the details of uniform townscape in Kyoto city under the Tokugawa regime. This paper deals with relation between townscape and the roofing clay tile regulation of Kyoto. As the result of that, official notices notified by Tokugawa shogunate and machibugyosho (magistrate of Kyoto) permit in the use of roofing clay tile in 1720. But the actual occurrence is that roofing clay tile has come into wide use in the 18〜19^<th> century. After that, tile roofed townscape uniformed. On the other hand, Udatsu (high walls on the both side of gable roof) has decreased.

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