A Study on the Image of Musashino and Factors Bring Changes on the Image

Abstract

Developement of cities needs the conservation and creation of nature, and Musashino represents the nature of Tokyo. The aims of this study are to make clear,
(1) the substance of 'the image of Musashino' of each age, and how the image has changed,
(2) the relation of the image and the real landscape,
(3) the decisive factor when an image changes.
The results are as follows.
(1) The image has changed from‘a field of wild grasses’to‘a vast stretch of land’, and next to‘an agricultural landscape’, and today's image is‘coppice’.
(2) There is difference in appearance of the change between the image and the real landscape.
3) There is a literary work as a decisive factor when an image changes.