Abstract
A new way of looking at a place can probably develop the forgotten olace's Dotential. This paper explores a change in the way of looking on the landscape of Biei, a Japanese Local Village in Hokkaido, which made hillside farmland into Dooular scenery during the 1980s. We examine the natures or characters of the way the landscape was viewed, and explore the factors of social background by what supported and justified a new Dersoective on the hills, in the same way that medical science can be viewed as a dominant discourse for medical viewpoint. The change which happened in Biei, was from the earlier dominant viewing of the mountains to the later one on the hills. Some social contexts of those days supported the viewpoint as a longing for such a subject. Furthermore, a photographer showed the hill as a subject on which he gazed, and people saw that the landscape was that for which they had been longing.
