A novel expresses a world as a model with concrete and universal descriptions, which includes expressions of landscapes. In this study, we analyze fifty-five novels which won Akutagawa Literary Prize from 1970 to 1994, to understand images of landscapes in recent years. Landscapes in the text are categorized into nine items and understood with stages of stories and periods. First, they are grasped quantitatively by the level of words. Then, reading stories around the words lead us to understand the meaning of items of the landscapes. As the results, after high economical growth, landscapes and their meanings decrease such as mountains as boundaries, rivers with plays, hills for understanding oneself relatively in the town and fields viewed on one's ways. Landscapes such as flowers, woods and skies which have been still left become to get more meanings.
