Japanese gardens need the intensive maintenance in order to preserve their aesthetic landscapes. Today, the maintenance cost has become burden to the garden owners and the effective management plan is needed by clarifying where and how much labor forces of management is thrown. In this research the following two points were conducted to get the insight of the future management plan in Japanese gardens. The focused site was Shirotori garden, which is a Stroke-Style Japanese garden around a big pond in the center, in Nagoya city. First, all management works in the garden were classified into two types; professional management and nonprofessional management. The labor accounts of each type were calculated and it was clarified that professional management accounted for 28% of the total labor accounts. Secondly, the labor accounts and the spatial distribution of two management types in each landscape theme were investigated. As a result, labor accounts of professional management showed high value in the landscape elements which became visual targets from traffic lines of pedestrians. On the other hand, labor accounts of nonprofessional management showed high value in the large central lawn area.
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