Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze of process of establishment school forest in the gakusei system period（1872-）. In order to begin the system, village of school district was forced to bear for huge educational expenses. Then, Kaiiku elementary school （In Horinouchi-village in Tama-gun, Musashi-kuni）established school forests for cope with the finances. First, members of the village was afforestation in common land. Furthermore, they demanded sale of government property to come upon another school forest. Finally, by departing from original plan for school rebuilding, they added the school site sold of government property to school forest to increase its estate. The way was new common use of forest in the village to cope with social change of the Meiji Restoration.
