Abstract

This paper aims to clarify the evolution and the spatial hierarchy of various edifices, existing within the principal section, called Ohoku Goten-muki , by verifying the historical evidence acquired mainly from the diversified contemporary drawings. Compared with the drawings which display the contemporary state of buildings' disposition within its confine by adjusting their scale and classifying the edifices in their function, the edifices are reorganized and classified into three groups for convenience to inhabitants, base on a zoning concept. In fact, its southwest side was occupied by the high-class people while its north was assigned to workplace for the maidservants.

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