Landscape Gardening at Sapporo Agricultural College
1990 Volume 54 Issue 5 Pages 72-77
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1990 Volume 54 Issue 5 Pages 72-77
The aim of this study is to obtain the character of Landscape Architecture of agricultural education by means of Landscape Gardening at Sapporo Agricultural College in the earlier part of Meiji Era.
Sapporo Agricultural College was inaugurated in 1876. Landscape Gardening was to be taught, because this College followed the example of Massachusetts Agricultural College (MAC) at first. Landscape Gardening was taught at MAC as early as 1868. Downing's Landscape Gardening, and so on were recommended for recitation or reference.
From the viewpoint of the campus (botanic garden or arboretum) design, Landscape Gardening took on significance at Agricultural College. But Landscape Gardening was not a subject of importance at Sapporo Agricultural College, because Landscape Gradening was treated as a fine art at MAC. A keen sense of open space was necessary to teach it, so that it was difficult for the staff of Horticultural Department to teach it.
