Outskirts of town - Basuemachi

Japanese: 場末町 - ばすえまち

This refers to the urban areas that expanded irregularly and disorderly around castle towns in the early Edo period, when they were built based on a planned urban plan. In contrast to the orderly samurai residences in the center and the town houses of townspeople who also served the feudal lord, outlying towns were often inhabited by lower-class people such as day laborers and botefuri (people who worked as street vendors). At the beginning of the Edo period, laborers for transportation and construction work gathered in the center of castle towns, and in the middle and later Edo period, town houses (town houses received as gifts) were built in samurai land and lower-class people sometimes settled there. However, outlying towns did not become common until the second half of the 17th century, when urban areas expanded and they were built on the outskirts.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

城下町が計画的な都市プランに基づいて建設された江戸初期以後，その周辺部に不規則，無秩序に拡大していった都市域をいう。中心部にある整然とした武家屋敷や領主の御用もつとめる町人たちの町屋と対照的に，場末町には日雇稼ぎや棒手振（ぼてふり）といった下層民が居住することが多かった。江戸期の初めには交通運搬や普請工事のための人夫などが城下町の中心部の町に集住していたり，中後期になると武家地の中に町屋敷(拝領町屋敷)がつくられ，下層民が住みつくことがあったが，場末町が一般的に展開するようになったのは，都市域が拡大し周辺部につくられていった17世紀後半である。

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