In an attempt to study positively one aspect of the contemporary huge urban society, we have taken up the case of Kyoto City (with a populationn fooe million and one handred thousand) and tried to determine the marriage pattern of its inhabitants in terms of where they have found their marriage partners since 1901. After analysing 14, 886 marriage cases, we have arrived at the following conclusions.
1. In about 40%, of those cases, the marriage took place between the inhabitants of Kyoto City. The percentage of such cases, however, has been decreasing.
2. In about 30%, an inhabitant of Kyoto was married to a person coming from the distant area (from 50 to 800 kilometers from Kyoto). The percentage has been decreasing.
3. In other cases, the marriage was between an inhabitant of Kyoto and a person from the area within 50 kilometers from the city. The percentage of those cases has been rather constant
In short, in many cases, the marriage takes place between the two living not for apart from each other. On the other hand, if we look at the picture more dynamically, we notice the tendency that marriage of the two living comparatively for are representing a greater percentage over the period.
Finally, we have detected similar trends in the marriages statistics concerning rural communities.