Abstract
TAKIZAWA Bakin, an author of popular stories in the late Edo period, is famous for his minute diary, in which his everyday life has been written down. Also he had written about his life in other manuscripts. Bakin's pleasure was a landscape gardening including a plant gardening. He had lived for 12 years, from 1824 to 1836, near Kanda-Myojin shrine. His house site was about 240 square meters, where were planted with many species of plants. It seems that his garden shows an appearence of horticulture in the Edo period in a sense. In a landscape gardening it needs practical knowledges about plants. In the other side the commom people of Edo had needed presentative models depending on ‘kaso’, the aspect of a house, originally based on the ancient Chinese theories of yin and yang, for making a garden or a residence. Although this ‘kaso’ was a folk belief or a superstition scientifically, we must pay special attention in mind to the popularity among the people in those days.
