The object of the present paper is to obtain the method for specifying the image of the space for Japanese traditional architecture and is to evaluate these spaces. Thirty-five traditional spaces were evaluated by thirty students with fifty rating scales, about fifteen years ago. Factor analysis had been applied to the data and yielded three main factors, which were interpreted as (i) gorgeousness, (ii) hardness and (iii) strictness. This time, twenty spaces of various types of buildings and of various ages was selected for the test : half of them were the exterior of buildings and the others the interior. The people who obsearved the spaces were thirty students whose major were architecture. The three rating scales written in Chinese character, which mean gorgeousness, hardness and strictness were used for the test, as well as fifty rating scales mentioned above. Image factor analysis was also applied to the data matrix of 20 samples × 50 scales and yielded two main factors, which were interpreted as (i) gorgeousness and (ii) hardness. Then the coefficients of correlation of the scores of three Chinese rating scales and the factor scores from the factor analysis were obtained. The score of the first factor was found to be strongly correlated with the score of Chinese gorgeousness scale and the score of second factor with the score of Chinese hardness scale. Therefore, Japanese traditional spaces can be simply and easily evaluated by rating the two scales : Chinesegorgeousness and Chinese-hardness. The twenty architectural spaces were plotted on the semantic space of gorgeousness and hardness axes.
