Abstract
This study investigated how local people used forest resources in daily life according to seasons or years in satoyama landscape (local village landscape), and how the seasonal cycle of the uses of forest resources and the landscape changed between 1900 and 1922. The investigation was mainly based on a diary written between 1900 and 1922 by a farmer of a rural village in the western part of Shiga Prefecture. Moreover, governmental and local records were analyzed and some of the elders in the village were interviewed. GIS was used to create a link between the seasonal cycle of forest resources uses and the satoyama landscape. Both the kinds of uses (such as plantation and grass-cutting) and the seasonal cycle of the uses of forest resources changed in relation to governmental forestry and agricultural policies. Changes in the position of the writer in the village and in his family resulted in uses differences as well.
