This research shows the importance of common image as an element of landscape study. To illustrate this, the common image of Shinsenkyo as depicted in Sansui-ga art has been studied. It was found that when subjects viewed Sansui-ga art, or a Chinese garden based on Shinsenkyo, they imagined themselves within the landscape ; they constantly searched for Shinsenkyo within the landscape ; and their impression of the landscape grown over time.
