明治後期の風景画家アルフレッド·パーソンズと大下藤次郎による自然景の発見

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The paper shows how the two landscape painters, Alfred Parsons and Tojiro Ohshita, discovered Japanese natural landscape, depicted them in their landscape paintings, and had a large influence on Japanese people in the late Meiji era, and considers their landscape view —the gaze at wilderness—, through the analyses of their travel destinations and drawing themes from the travel accounts and the landscape paintings. Alfred Parsons traveled around natural districts such as the Seto Inland Sea, Yoshino, Nikko, Mt. Fuji, and Hakone. These places became Japanese national parks later. He had great influence on the discovery of natural Landscape in Japan. Some Japanese painters, who had watched landscape paintings of Parsons, tried to depict the landscape of mountains and wilderness, and generated new gaze at nature. Tojiro Ohshita, who was one of those affected by Parsons, made his way into back coutry such as Kamikochi, Oze, and Towada Lake, and depicted beautiful landscape paintings of these wilderness for the first time. He therefore popularized the gaze at wilderness to a great extent through exhibitions, magazines and so on.