CONSTRUCTION MAINTENANCE PROCESS OF GANGI ARCADE IN TOWN PLACES OTHER THAN A MODERN CASTLE TOWN

At town places other than a castle town, in the post town, construction of Gangi Arcade was started from the beginning of the 17th century (Ojiya), and it spread through the port town (Sakata, Niigata, and Aomori), the town (Hanawa and Tanabe) of a market, etc. after the beginning of the 18th century. Gangi arcade was built also at town places other than a castle town, because Gangi Arcade was used also as a place of goods dealing in the case of a fixed city in addition to the function as a passage.