The purpose of this study is to investigate the riverside design in Osaka of the Edo period, which by making clear the relationship between managements, uses and the design of riverside. We grasped the management regulations of riverside in those days, and then selected 15 famous landscape portraits. According to the characteristics of uses in those landscape portraits were classified into terminal, market, landing place, and place of entertainment. We analyzed the relationship between the uses and the design of riverside; as a result, we made clear that the riverside was designed to secure by the management regulations and to function by the characteristics of uses in each places.
