抄録
The influence of human activities on vegetation is sometimes so great. However, the history of vegetation and the human impact on it is not so clear. Here the relation between the vegetation of the first half of Meiji era and human activities has been inferred from some good materials such as topographical maps, photographs and literatures which have much more information about vegetation and related human activities than those before the era. Studied areas are the suburbs of Kyoto and the rural areas of Kanto region. As the result, it was found that there was deep relation between the vegetation and the human activities in Meiji era. It was also found that some types of vegetation seemed to have been deeply influenced by the human activities before. Dwarf pine tree areas and few vegetation parts of the hills around Kyoto at that time were examples of such vegetation types.
