Abstract
After modernization, photographs are used as a tool to describe landscape correctly. Landscape photographs on the mass media are represented with “way of seeing” by publisher and spread out beyond a local area. The landscape images of those photographs are shared among readers and could be established as common images. However, landscape preservation should be based on the historical and cultural process of landscape images rather than authorized images. This study clarified how landscape images had changed by analyzing the photographs and topics of Kitayama-sugi in Kyoto on the newspapers and magazines, and presented relations between the changes of landscape images and local space. The results: 1) Forest and its change were accepted through the way of seeing not always through how they were seen exactly; 2) The same forest type had changed its way of seeing in the time. The form and method of the forest should be determined according to discuss the forest images. Nowadays local residents raise their concern to have new forest images as a way to preserve the forest, and try to make it possible in landscape preservation and sustain wood production.
