Abstract
Recently, interest in night landscape has been increasing, and waterfront is one of the most significant spots to enjoy it. In the field of art, expression of night landscape in waterfront has been interested by, for example, Mr. Kiyothika KOBAYASHI, Japanese engraver in 19th century, or Rene Magritte, Belgium painter in the middle of 20th century. This study pointed out the clear reflection of light as significant factor of night landscape in waterfront in their works. In addition, we analyzed contemporary guidebooks of night landscape for Tokyo, Osaka Kobe and Kyoto regions to examine the light sources, their locations and conditions of reflected images.
Furthermore, we attempted to manifest the evaluation of night landscape in Biwa-Lake, Shiga, Japan through in-situ questionnaire investigations and proved the property of night landscape evaluation in comparison with daytime.
