There was a dispute over the concept of national parks between Tsuyoshi Tamura and Keiji Uehara during the 1920’s, and each made his own “Mt. Kongo National Park Plan” later in 1930. In this study, planning Idea of national parks by Tsuyoshi Tamura is discussed after identifying similarities and differences of the two through the analysis process of “Mt. Kongo National Park Plan”. As a result, the following points have been clarified. Uehara’s concept and resources of national parks change over time. During the 1920’s, Uehara considered national parks as a conservation district for natural treasures and excluded landscape to consider as their resource; however, he regarded landscape as a main resource in 1930. On the other hand, Tamura’s establishment of a park area was based on conditions such as a visible area of landscape and land ownership (prioritized forests owned by the nation and temples, and avoided private property), and to secure a vast size of the unity area. Lastly, Uehara prioritized history and culture as resources of a national park; whereas Tamura prioritized natural landscape and did not value traditional landscape.
