The Architectural and Urban Study of the Castle Town Formation in the Transitional Period from Late Medieval to Early Modern

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26420653
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Architectural history/Design
• Research Institution: Kyoto Tachibana University
• Principal Investigator: TOYA Nobuhiro 京都橘大学, 文学部, 助教B (40447909)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 城下町 / 織田政権 / 北陸

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To reveal the spatial change of the castle towns in the transitional period from late medieval to early modern, I focused on the Ono and Kitanosho castle town in Echizen Province, which was constructed by the elite retainers of Nobunaga Oda intros study. And I analyzed their formation processes and characters of spatial-socio structure.
As the result, the followings are revealed. 1) Both towns had the spatial structure which unified the castle and the local town as same as the Azuchi castle town constructed by Nobunaga Oda. 2) Retainers relocated the commercial and industrial men who lived in the local town into the castle town, and kept them under control. 3) And this type was the achievement of Oda regime castle town construction.

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