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The developments of reclaimed farmlands were performed actively in Osaka in the Edo era. As a result the vast lands, which amounts to more than 20,000 ha, were produced, and it was happened to exert a great influence on urban development in the last part of the Meiji era. Because they were the reclamation of the shallow water and also, were under development by private capital that was called 'Chonin Ukeoi Shinden', reclaimed farmlands contracted by the trading class, the circumstances may be quite different from those of the inland rural areas. It is important to know how the settlement formation there was from the point of view of understanding the characteristics of urbanization in Osaka, but the reality is not well known. Its features and circumstances of settlement formation in the coastal area of development of new farmlands in the early Meiji era, we tried to reveal through comparison with the inland rural areas. The results of the study based on the historical data and maps, are as follows: there were the villages with no settlements, and without any shrines or temples having close ties with colonization in the coastal area, unlike the inland rural area.
