現代における風景に関する百選の展開と選定地の変遷

抄録

"Nihon Sankei” and “Omi Hakkei”, are specially chosenlandscapes that are known worldwide. In recent years, sets of one hundred landscapes“Hyaku-Sen” have been selected for various purposes. It is very likely that each set reflects people’s thoughts on landscapes of the time it was selected. The aim of this paper is to reveal how the concept behind the selection of Hyaku-Sen” gradually changed based on the collected information regarding each “Hyaku-Sen (the concept behind it, the details of the actualselection process)” and how the way people looked at landscapes changed over time by comparing the sets of one hundred locations chosen for tourism promotion purposes. Around 50 sets of "Hyaku-Sen" were officially selected between 1950 and 2010. At the beginning, the purpose of selecting“Hyaku-Sen”was tourism promotion. However, the purpose diversified gradually, and sets of one hundred landscapes were selected eventually for environmental protection, historic/cultural preservation, and so on. It has been found out by comparing the selected locations that the landscape to be selected changed from the initial purely natural landscapes to ‘mostly natural’ landscapes, townscapes, and buildings including leisure facilities,covering a wide range of landscapes.