e) Bibliography

The following is a list of the important basic reference materials on the scientific study of the area in Japanese. Shirakawa-go : 1) General History and Features of Village Hasegawa, Tadataka. Hishu-shi. (general research on Hida province). of Hida-sosho series, 1829. Tomita Iyahiko. Hidago fudoki. (history and natural/cultural climate of Hida province). Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1910. Gifu Prefectural Board of Education. Sho-Shirakawa gakujutsu chosa hokokusho. 2 vols. (report on scientific research on Sho-Shirakawa). 1957. Ono-gun Shirakawa-Mura-Shi Hensan Iinkai (editorial committee). Shirakowa-Mura shi. (history of Shirakawa-Mura). Shirakawa-Mura, 1968. 2) Social System and Folklore Okamura, Seiji. Hida Shirakawa-Mura no daikazoku seido. (the extended family system in Hida Shirakawa-Mura). Gifu Prefecture, 1929. Ema, Mieko. Shirakawa-Mura no dai-kazoku. (the extended family system in Shirakawa-Mura). Tokyo: Mikuni-shobo, 1943. Tamaki, Hajime. Nihon ni okeru daikazoku seido no kenkyu: Gifu-ken Shirakawa-Mura no daikazoku ni tsuite no shakai-keizai-shi teki Kenkyu. (the extended family system in Japan: social-economical research on the extended family of Shirakawa-Mura, Gifu Prefecture). Tokyo: Toe-shoin, 1959. Ishikawa, Junichiro. "Hida Shirakawa-go no fudo to minzoku: Jodo Shinshu sonraku Shirakawa-Mura Ogimachi no minzoku-so". (the physical environment and folklore of a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist village, Shirakawa-go Ogimachi). Jinrui Kagaku. No.36 (1984). Koyama, Takashi. Sankan shuraku no daikazoku: Etchu Gokayama / Hida Shirakawa-Mura no jissho kenkyu (the extended family system in the mountain villages of Etchu Gokayama and Hida Shirakawa). Tokyo: Kawashima-shoten, 1988. 3) Gassho-style House Ishihara, Kenji. Nihon nomin kenchiku. (Japanese farmhouse architecture). Tokyo: Shuraku-sha, 1934. Ito, Teiji. "Takayama / Shirakawa". (the architecture of Takayama and Shirakawa). In Nihon no Minka. Tokyo: Bijutsushuppansha, 1958. Ito, Nobuo. "Sho-Shirakawa chiho no kenchiku ni tsuite". (report on scientific surveys of the architecture of the Sho-Shirakawa region). In Sho-Shirakawa sogo gakujutsu chosa hokokusho Gifu Prefectural Board of Education, 1957. Shirakawa-Mura Board of Education. Shirakawa-Mura Ogimachi: Dentoteki-Kenzoubutsugun Hozonchiku chosa hokokusho. (report on survey of Shirakawa-Mura Ogimachi Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings). 1975. Shirakawa-Mura Board of Education. Shirakawa-Mura no Gassho-zukuri shuraku: Juyo-Dentoteki-Kenzoubutsugun-Hozonchiku Shirakawa-Mura Ogimachi hozon-keikaku minaoshi chosa hokokusho. (report on the research for the revision of the Preservation Plan for the Shirakawa-Mura Ogimachi Important Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings). 1987.