2005 Volume 68 Issue 5 Pages 385-388
At the Shonai district in Yamagata Prefecture, the northern region of Honshu, there were six huge landowners gardens (relief works garden below) constructed for the needy tenantry during the bad harvest and for the unemployed during the wintertime. Then, this study showed how the relief works garden at the Shonai district developed under the social policies which are called relief works. As a result, the factor that the landowner garden had been grown was integrated into following three points; (1) a longing for making the landowner garden, (2) a necessity of relief works, (3) a surrounding of snowy country. As to the meanings of the landowner garden, I consider there was, in terms of a garden construction, the social policy-side which is causing an increase in the opportunity of employment for the tenantry and stevedore. There also was, in terms of gardening, a meaning of the principles of Landscape Architecture which is snowy country as the utilization of regional condition.
