Historical GIS of castle towns using the old maps of castle towns and the historical data of residents in the 17-19th Century, Japan

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

The University of Tokushima

HIRAI Shogo
ABE Toshio
SUMIYA Yumiko
NAGAI Hiroshi
WATANABE Koji
NOZUMI Masayoshi
NUKATA Masahiro
MIYAZAKI Yoshimi
KURUMIDA Hiroki
OYA Yukio
NEZU Hisao
HIRAI Yoshito
OKAMURA Kazuyuki
TOMITA Koji
ASATO Susumu
SAKIHARA Kyoko
HASEGAWA Shogo

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25244041
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25244041/

In this research, GIS maps of the castle towns in the Edo period were made based on the old maps of castle towns and the historical data of the residents(samurai and merchant). Moreover, we examined the change of the land use and the residents of about 10 castle towns in Japan such as Yonezawa, Mito, Shibata, Tokushima, Matsue, Saga, and others. As a result, by individually identifying residents of the samurai residential lots and machi-ya(the residential districts of merchant) and mapping the residents on GIS software, we have grasped the change of residents and land use. Therefore, this research using GIS was able to present a new research method to the study of castle towns.