本研究は，住吉大社御文庫蔵書を主な資料として，大阪を所在地とする発行所から刊行された絵本の成立の解明を目的としている．本稿では，近世から大阪の心斎橋筋で出版活動を行っていた田村九兵衛が大正期に刊行した子ども用絵本を事例とした．「御文庫」の概要と心斎橋筋の出版文化の変容，および田村九兵衛の絵本の傾向を素描することを通して，田村九兵衛が直面した近代化の問題を検討した．

Visibility is an important character of the river in the city. In Japan, numerous outdoor signboards are used along the urban river. This paper aims to use the index of “rate of signboard area” to decipher the visibility and its utilization in different spaces along the two rivers in the middle of Osaka. As the result, the bridge was found as the most effective factor which gives good vision and makes these signboards specially utilized. Next comes the pattern of riverside-road and building use, which both affect “rate of signboard area” evidently. Some subjects and methods available to riverside planning based on the result were proposed.

With the age of information industries started at the end of the 20th century, came the era where various issues relating to complicated challenges can be solved by combining information and business. People’s sensitivity to their lifestyles has active influence on creation of new fashions, which brings about a variety of changes to the fashion industries. One of such changes in recent years is the spread of so-called Creative Fashion, which attaches a high value to selfexpression. In Creative Fashion, customers combine items of various fashion houses to express themselves.

The fashion industries in the world, including Asian area that is achieving a remarkable economic growth, is expected to have still more creative and diversified development. In Japan,“Osaka” is attracting attention as a city having sufficient urban functions to satisfy various conditions and requirements as well as to support consumption.

First, this paper categorizes present fashion houses into three groups, points out their polarized price policies, and provides specific examples regarding transformation of fashions which are transmitted and created from the consumers’ side. Next, in order to develop objective understanding of the fashion industries, the present situations of the fashion industries are examined based on statistics on apparel markets in the world and in Japan. Then, the paper introduces a term “Cool Osaka” for Osaka City that receives an increasing number of foreign tourists, and lists the features of Osaka as a potential consuming region of Creative Fashion. The paper further explains that desired human resources are becoming diverse since the circumstances surrounding the fashion industries are in the middle of drastic changes. Finally, the paper describes the growth of Creative Fashion in the relationship between Osaka and the world.