Abstract

Kichijoji has been established by the emigration with the urban renewal of Edo after the Great Fire of Meireki in1657 and planed as Shinden settlement with the similar strip-shaped allotment of land . This paper compares the land allotments and composition of Michi (streets and alleys) in detail with the typical maps (cadastral map at the beginning of the Meiji era, lot number map at the end of the Taiso era, fire insurance map revised in 1949) and seeks to comprehensively the formative process of Kichijoji and Nishikubo area from the Meiji era to the early Showa era.

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