Abstract
This paper aims to reveal the process to form a realm around Jodoji, shishigatani, and nyakuouji from modern era downward. The formation of landscape in Tokugawa era as a basic was constituted by huge clops fields and several temples on the feet of mountains, and a few paths connected these components. The transformation after it underwent in 3 steps; the construction of Biwako Canal, the urban planning and the development of houses, and the formation of ‘the philosopher's path’. Especially in the second step, painters and philosophers who started to dwell in this area discovered worth of old elements. They created a wide realm made of two medience of different characters; historical and residential band.
