Abstract
Kotonoura Onzanso Garden in Kainan city Wakayama, is the modern plutocrat NITTA Chojiro’s villa. A key distinguishing feature of this villa garden is that a lot of imitation stones and imitation trees are used in this garden as landscape materials. They are stepping stone, shore stone arrangement of pond, garden furniture and so on. Thus, this paper analyzed landscape historical positioning of Kotonoura Onzanso Garden from the point of view of landscape architectural use genealogy of imitation stone and imitation tree focusing on modern Japanese landscape. As the results, this paper led two points on landscape historical position of this garden. Firstly, Kotonoura Onzansou Garden is pioneering example introducing imitation stone and imitation tree. Secondary, about imitation stones and imitation trees in this garden, it is not copy of foreign technique and foreign products but original materials invented by NITTA Chojiro himself.
