| Research Abstract |
Many carpenters lived in the Horyuji-village of the Yamato province in Edo era. They were controlled by Nakai-clan which had been appointed "Kyo-daikugashira" position by the Tokugawa's sovereignty thoroughly the Edo era. Generally fifty persons of them were included in the chief-carpenters organization of Nakai-clan during the seventeenth century. The person held the post of a chief-carpenter were limited of the several lineage, for example, Imamura, Thukamoto, Hasegawa, Yasuda, Nishimura, Okajima, Heinouthi, Kakui, Imaoku, etc. The other of them belonged to the seven or eight groups of the carpenters, called "Daikugumi", between seventeenth to eighteenth century. One group was organized from ten to twenty persons, therefore, from one hundred to one hundred-fifty carpenters were lived in the Horyuji-village at that time. "Daikugumi" in the Kansai district was constructed generally the crpenters of the one country or several nearby villages. Accordingly a case of the Horyuji-village was peculiarity in this district. But the carpenters of this village decreased in the ninteenth century, they were organized only one "Daikugumi", which was called "Horyujigumi". Horyuji-village was so large village that the administration was put in four units, called "Kabu". One of them was called "Daikukata-kabu", which was composed of the carpenters. About six hundred and sixty "Koku" of "Dakukata-kabu" had the twentyfive percent of the total of all.
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