Abstract
The purpose of this article is to clarify how the sense of beauty was generated in modernization of Tokyo through the Meiji era. The analysis of articles about beauty was conducted on the basis of the investigation into the process of reconstruction and repairs on Nihonbashi Bridge that was representative of modernization. The results of this study are as follows; There were two characteristic dynamisms. One was beauty of the bridge itself, found as its novel form of beauty in the early Meiji era. This came to mean decorative design of bridges. The other was beauty of district including the decorative bridge. This came to require controls on beauty of district after the reconstruction of Nihonbashi Bridge in 1911.
