Abstract
Kenji Ishihara (1895-1984), the fifth president of the City Planning Institute of Japan and the pioneering researcher on Japanese farmhouse architecture, was also the most important person in the movement for urban beauty, began in later 1920's by the newly established Society of Civic Art. Ishihara had always governed the management of the society as the standing director from 1925 to 1981. His thoughts and theories on urban beauty were not restricted to visual aspects. He thought urban beauty as physiological indicators related to living environments. In addition, he paid serious attention on historical characters of city and continued to insist of close relation between urban beauty and urban planning.
