The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics of Osaka's cityscape structure in the latter half of the 19th century. Here we have picked up the “Naniwa-Hyakkei”,woodprints of the scenes of Osaka published in that time, and analyzed the position of the view point and the direction of the view in each print. Through this analysis, we have made clear that the edges of the land, such as watersides and skirts of plateaus are very important to cityscape planning.
