Abstract
There are two ways of approach to make clear the generation process of the concept of 'historic environment' in Japan. One is to trace back the administrative movements on conservation of cultural properties, the other to make clear the process how the concept of 'environment' got the historical point of view. In this first part, it is intended to clarify how the theory of conservation reached the architectual perservation by the end of the 19th century from the former point of view. Here in this paper, the conflict between the conservetion of 'constitution' of old shrines and temples and the conservation of 'entity' of their properties is related, so as to enable to understand the back ground of the concept of 'historic environment'.
