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The subject of this research is a perspective in Japanese painting. It considered difference between a perspective in Japanese painting and Western painting. The distinctive features of a perspective in Japanese are a slanted line, a bird's eye view, the perspective expression of a Japanese ink painting and Japanese prints, and so on. While the features of a perspective in Wetstern painting are a linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and the expression of light. This research considered the reason of this difference. The difference is on the ground of the philosophy for nature like this : Japanese have a naturalistic philosophy, Western people have a rational philosophy.