Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the types and meanings of the motives shown in the traditional houses. Research methods to achieve this purpose are review of literature, field survey, and contents analysis. Traditional houses were divided into 3 parts such as architectural elements, interior elements and decoration elements, and total of 163 motives were collected out of it. As a result, it was founded that roof of the architectural element, and doors and windows of the interior elements are shown the most of the motives. Motives were divided into two types, realistic motives and imaginative motives, and both types are shown evenly. Meanings of the motives are classified into 'protection', 'good-luck', 'long-life', 'ideology', and 'decoration', and the motives of meaning of good-luck showed the most variety.
