Yoji Aoki

National Institute for Environmental Studies · retired

revision of paper published in 2008

travelogue from 1983 to 1984 at Freising-Weihenstephan

travelogue in Germany

A data book of outdoor activities in Austria and Japan Research category: Bilateral Joint Project in 2005 and 2006 by JSPS (JSPS, 1-109 project)

The distribution of and recent research on Hakkei (Eight Views) of Japan Data of the historical appreciation of landscapes in Japan

Contributors 青木陽二：Yoji AOKI, 独立行政法人国立環境研究所 有馬朗人：Akito ARIMA, 国際俳句交流協会 コブ・デイビッド：David COBB，英国俳句協会 デオドハール・アンジェリー：Angelee DEODHAR，インド在住眼科医 デュテイユ・ダニエル：Danièle DUTEIL，フランス俳句協会 井口百合香：Yurika IGUCHI，つくばアーバンガーデニング ジャンボール・絹子：Kinuko JAMBOR, 国際俳句交流協会 ジャンボール・リチャード：Richard, JAMBOR，日本研究者 近田文弘：Fumihiro KONTA, 国立科学博物館 松島肇：Hajime MATSUSHIMA，北海道大学 宮下惠美子：Emiko MIYASHI...

Investigation methods for recreational use of natural landscape

Landscape appreciation and their environmental value in Tsukuba Science City Investigations using photographs and large scaled maps, daily behaviors of walking bicycle use

Landscape phenomena obtained by human being

references to landscape appreciation until 8.4.2024

Appreciation of Japanese landscapes by employed westerners in 1861-1867

Relationship between perceived greenery and width of visual field revised by the measurement of 22.9.2021 Yoji AOKI Summary: Recent years, several researches had pointed out the preferable effects of the greenery on the impression of landscape. And many studies resulted those effects to be depended on the amount of greenery in the field of vision....

Relationship between perceived greenery and width of visual field revised by the measurement of 22.9.2021 (Aoki, Y. 1987) Yoji AOKI Summary: Recent years, several researches had pointed out the preferable effects of the greenery on the impression of landscape. And many studies resulted those effects to be depended on the amount of greenery in the f...

references on landscape appreciation papers

A session on landscape appreciation was held in JpGU2020. Five presentaions were reported by Nakamura, K., Kikuchi, M., Liu, M., Nakatani, M. and Aoki, Y.

From 5th of October in 1983 to Ist of October in 1984, I had the chance to stay in Europe mainly at Stadt Freising of Bayern in Germany, for a long term research in abroad conducted by the Science and Technology Agency. During the term, I had learned about the impression of landscapes at specific sites of Europe. This book has summarized the memor...

This report mainly aims to show the data concerning Hakkei (Eight Views) in Japan. We have used the expression Hakkei instead of “eight views” or “eight landscapes” to identify how the appreciation of scenery evolved in East Asia although the term sometimes involves nine or more landscapes. We investigated their distribution using the replies to qu...

This report listed and summarized the descriptions of Western visitors about “Fukei” of Japan since the first arrival on Tanegashima Island in 1549 (Aoki, et al. 2004). We could define `Fukei’ as similar to the concept as the impression of landscape or scenery. Japanese appreciation of scenery had been affected by Chinese culture since ancient time...

This report focused on the plants described in haiku. The first paper by Fumihiro Konta presented an analysis of kigo, season words for haiku, based on the taxonomy of plants. He found that some kigo could be explained by the taxonomy but some were impossible to identify their plant species. The results of a taxonomical analysis on the kigo compile...

In environmental planning, it is normal to adjust that all environmental standards are similar throughout the world. This criterion is warranted in the case of environmental pollution problems. For example, all human beings should be assured of a healthy environment for their daily life. But in the case of quality of life, the standard should be ch...

After the opening of the country at the end of the Edo era in 1854, many Western visitors stayed and traveled in Japan. They discovered the beauty of Japanese landscapes and reported back to their countries in the latter half of the 19th century. At the time however the Japanese themselves could not know those reports or travelogues, and did not...

Distribution of 8views in Japan

Residence of Yoji AOKI at Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan, Freising, Bayern, Germany 1983-1984

Appreciations of Japanese landscapes by the western visitors arrived (1861-1868) until the Meiji Restoration

Results of landscape appreciation by images of residential areas in Munich

8 views of Japan

Trends of Definition of Landscape Phenomenon in Books Published since Meiji era in Japan Yoji AOKI Abstract: Recently, the difference of concepts between "Fukei" and "Keikan" in Japanese was reported in the Journal of Landscape Research. This showed the different understanding among different cultural backgrounds and linguistic spheres. Western...

By guiding the respondents to the various garden-type parks, experiencing many green spaces, and examining their evaluations, the following seven points were clarified. (1) By being able to compare parks with each other, the rank of parks was obtained. By this survey, Shinjuku Gyoen, Rikugien, Yoyogi Park, and Mukojima Hyakkaen were preferred in th...

We explored how the appreciation of natural landscapes evolved in the history of mankind and the growth of human individuals. In the history of painting, it was found that the development of landscape paintings was quite slow, and it took a long time to find the value of landscape painting as it is now. And it was also found that the age at which t...

The psychological data obtained by the on-site evaluation of greenery space were analyzed by CATDAP, and the following evaluation structures and the important items of green space were clarified. 1) The evaluation structure was clarified that the park type and comfort level contributed to visit again, and the beauty, orderly feeling, and varied fee...

Relationship between perceived greenery and width of visual field Yoji A0KI Summary: Recent years, several researches had pointed out the preferable effects of the greenery on the impression of landscape. And many studies resulted those effects to be depended on the amount of greenery in the field of vision. The ratios of greenery are fluctuating a...

In order to clarify the comfortable user density of the green space from the impression of the users, I analyzed the relationship between the number of visitors at Koishikawa Korakuen and the feeling of congestion of the visitors at the time. It was clarified that the feeling of congestion was related to the number of people in the park at the time...

This report listed and summarized the descriptions of Western visitors about "Fukei" of Japan since the first arrival on Tanegashima Island in 1549 (Aoki, Konta and Sakakibara 2004). Until residence of diplomats, the visitors were mainly stay Nagasaki and traveled through Seto inland sea and Tokaido main road. By the popularity of landscape paintin...

The research on landscape evaluation began in November 1983 with the advice by Prof. Appleton at Hull University. He proposed a prospect-refuge theory based on animal predation behavior, and argued that wide viewing from a safe place was the beginning of landscape evaluation (Appleton 1986). Bourassa (1991) suggested the cerebral development in the...

Introduction This report listed and summarized the descriptions of Western visitors about "Fukei" of Japan since the first arrival on Tanegashima Island in 1549 (Table 1). We could define 'Fukei' as similar to the concept as the appreciation of landscape or the impression of scenery. Japanese appreciation of scenery had been affected by Chinese cu...

JpGU2020 was ended by remote meeting, but we will have a meeting the session "International Comparison of Landscape Appreciation" at Koishikawa Korakuen Garden in Tokyo on 13pm of 15th December. Please contact me if you will join us! yojiaoki2@ybb.ne.jp Dr.=Eng. Yoji AOKI, the convener of this session

The session on "International Comparison of Landscape Appreciation" was held at the meeting of the Japan Geoscience Union, from 2013 to 2019, to discuss the understanding of landscape appreciation. The landscape appreciation comprises four components, that is observers, appreciation, landscape, and analysis of results with physical data. From the a...

To estimate the number of public garden park visitors and their behavior, the fluctuation of daily visitors were analyzed by the method of quantification theory I. And season, days of week, weather, free of charge was selected as to the fluctuation factors. The suitable sets bf categories were designed for each park and the level of 0.8 correlation...

To investigate the effects of several attributes on the inducements of parks, six parks were selected based on three attributes of parks which were vegetations, width of area and neighbored traffic conditions. Some parks have dense vegetation and the others have little. These parks ranged from smaller than 1 ha to larger than 10 ha. Some parks loca...

To investigate the differences of utilization between the charged parks and the free parks, six garden style parks were selected based on the width of area. Three of them charged the visitors with a flat entrance fee and the other three are opened free of charge. The two set of three parks ranged from 1 ha to 55 ha. At these parks, the numbers of v...

Abstract In places where visitor numbers should be counted, we must know its cost by arranging a large number of investigators because of the unclear boundaries and entrances. The most important factor to estimate the cost is how many days we must count in the fields. The fluctuation of visitors will give the minimum investigation days for the fiel...

We have considered trends of landscape appreciation since JpGU2013-2018. According to the definition of landscape phenomena proposed by Prof. O. Shinohara (Fig. 1), we reported the trends of studies in each part of the phenomena. Aoki, Y. (1999) described the first landscape evaluation using psychometrical methods to be pioneered by Peterson, G.L....

Doctor degree of 1976 chapter 6

Chapter 1 Orientation of this study in the recent studies In order to determine the purpose of the research, this chapter summarizes existing surveys, research and materials, and describes the positioning of this research in the green issue in the procedure of Figure 1-1. For the understanding of this study, we first explain the viewpoint of this r...

Chapter 1 Orientation of this study in the recent studies In order to determine the purpose of the research, this chapter summarizes existing surveys, research and materials, and describes the positioning of this research in the green issue in the procedure of Figure 1-1. For the understanding of this study, we first explain the viewpoint of this r...

Study on the evaluation of the amount of greenery based on the impression of urban dwelers Summary: Study on evaluation method of greenery amount--based on impressions of urban dwellers I. Purpose of the study Twelve years have passed since the first public-opinion survey on greenery. One period has passed in public opinion on greenery issues. This...

Comparison of disaster haiku composed after the Great East Earthquake in Kesennuma area between 2012 and 2013�Yoji AOKI, Keisuke KUMAGAI and Anastasia PETROVA

trends of studies on landscape appreciation published in English journal

1. Introduction The Great East Japan Earthquake of Magnitude 9.0, which occurred on March 11, 2011, had a great impact on people. It destroyed a large residential area and took many lives. The psychological impact on people caused by the earthquake is still going on. What is unique to Japan is that this psychological influence was reflected in haik...

1. Introduction Landscape evaluation using psychometrical methods was pioneered by Peterson (1967). Such studies were popularized during 1970-1990’s, but recently such research has tended to decrease. Figure 1 shows that the number of survey papers follows a similar tendency. Various technical developments of measurements and analysis were tried, a...

1. Beginning of joint research In the evaluation of the natural landscape, Tamura and Honda (1941) suggested the effect of Russian literature in the appreciation of Musashino, the deciduous forests in Tokyo, written by Doppo Kunikida. In 2006, Aoki visited Moscow to propose a comparative study of the landscape evaluation between Russian and Japanes...

Study of the psychological evaluation of the landscapes began in the 1960s. It has become popular in many countries and is currently progressing. In this study, I examine research that has been published in major English journals, such as Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Research, Journal of Environmental Management, Environment and Behavior...

One can relativize one's own environmental values by comparison with those of the people in other countries, thereby recognizing that these values are indispensable for sustainable development in each country. This study, which focused on Russia and Japan, aimed to clarify the commonality, differences, and factors influencing environmental att...

Landscape evaluation using psychometrical methods was pioneered by Peterson (1967). Such studies were popularized during 1970-1990's, but recently such research has tended to decrease. Figure 1 shows that the number of survey papers follows a similar tendency. Various technical developments of measurements and analysis were tried, and the first pre...

1. Introduction Japanese short poems, called " haiku " , are regarded as appropriate expressions of Japanese seasonal sentiments because they stem from the rich and diverse changes in the Japanese environment. But we do not know how Japanese haiku are used to respond to extensive natural changes such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. With this...

Abstract: The study of the psychological evaluation of the landscape was begun in the 1960s, and has become popular in many countries and is curently progressing. In this paper, I examined the researches which have been published in major English-language journals, e.g. Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Research, Environmental Management, Env...

Japan and Russia have deeply rooted cultural traditions regarding natural landscape appreciation, share a common border, and have areas with similar natural environments. They differ, however, in cultural, historical, and economic aspects. The purpose of this study was to reveal the similarities and differences between Russian and Japanese responde...

The damage of the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the East Japan big earthquake, the east part of Japan received big impact on the March 11, 2011. Many haiku poet composed haiku poems to the impact of the nuclear power plant accident and the earthquake disasters. Of these haiku what was published in the magazine, 234 haiku on the home page were t...

This paper reviews interesting studies on landscape evaluation in terms of psychological tests referred in Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Research, J. of Environmental Psychology, Environment and Behavior, J. of Environmental Management and some other scientific journal from 2009 to 2013. Until 2005, I reviewed various experiments of lands...

Abstract：It has been already 45 years since the first English paper on psychometric landscape evaluation was published. Nearly 40 years passed since Professor Appleton preached the importance of landscape experience for landscape appreciation in 1975. The criticism of quantifying landscape evaluation through photography was made 35 years ago. Durin...

To consider the future of Japanese landscape for 100 years, we e xplored from the viewpoints of the Westerners for the excellent scenery of Japan. Westerners had noted Japanese landscapes since the 16th century, and they appreciated the beauty of Japanese landscapes in their travelogues. Some of them expressed their opinion that Japan should be pre...