Abstract
There are lots of historic gardens inherited from Heian Period in Kyoto, and they have been preserved by countless Kyoto gardeners. But recently, rapid changes in the surrounding situations (e.g. changes in natural environment) seem to make them gardeners be in face with considerable problems. The purpose of this study is to know actual conditions of Kyoto gardeners who are preserving various historic gardens now, and consider their future to achieve the good preservation of historic gardens. To this end, we investigated actual conditions of Kyoto gardeners by questionnaire survey. As a result, we found some trends in their thought, for example, 63 percent of them required the restoration rather than the evolution of historic gardens, and 56 percent of them desired to tighten landscape conservation regulations. The most pregnant result was that 58 percent approved of compiling some guidelines for preserving historic gardens. We supposed the guideline would contribute a great deal to the good preservation of historic gardens.
