network analysis to the historical materials of early modern topography

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26520206
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 特設分野
• Research Field: Mathematical Sciences in Search of New Cooperation
• Research Institution: Kagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Aoki Takaaki 香川大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (30553284)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Murayama Satoshi 香川大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60210069) ; Higashi Noboru 京都府立大学, 文学部, 准教授 (00416562) ; Mizoguchi Tsunetoshi 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 名誉教授 (50144100)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-07-18 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 郡村誌 / ネットワーク解析 / コミュニティ検出 / 歴史GIS

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To understand the living system in Edo period in Japan, we applied a network analysis to the historical materials of early modern topography. In the early modern, villages are economically and socially connected with each other. To detect the communities of villages, we reconstructed the village network based on the materials with geographic information tool and applied graph decomposition to the network. The obtained village clusters can be a new subject of history. By comparison with the maritals in different times in Amakusa, we studied how the clusters developed and are merged into a few giant clusters

Free Research Field

ネットワーク科学