Historical Landscape of Japan from the Air (II)

Research Project

Project/Area Number	02451096
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Human geography
Research Institution	Nara Women's University
Principal Investigator	TAKEHISA Yoshihiko Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Prof., 文学部, 教授 (10031668)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	OGATA Noboru Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Assoc. Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (30160740) SOHMA Hidehiro Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Assoc. Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (90196999) TOMATSURI Yumio Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Assoc. Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (60032322) SENDA Minoru Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Prof., 文学部, 教授 (20079403) FUNAKOSHI Akio Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Prof., 文学部, 教授 (80027531)
Project Period (FY)	1990 – 1991
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000) Fiscal Year 1991: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000) Fiscal Year 1990: ¥3,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000)
Keywords	Aerial photography / Reconstruction of historical landscape / Ancient national road / Moated settlement / Climatic landscape / Mountain village / Urban study / Satellite image / 環濛集落 / 地形分類 / 丘陵 / 平野 / 奈良盆地 / 高倍率の立体画像
Research Abstract	The staff members of the department of geography, Nara Women's University, already reported their results of the study on Japanese historical landscape using aerial photographs in March, 1989. In order to make further research on the same subject, the study of this time has been made by the same members. Most of the study have been made by utilizing conventional black-and-white images, however, some works are the results interpretation of natural colour aerial photographs and satellite images. Main subjects of each member of present study are as follows. M. Senda studied prehistoric and ancient landscape. Y. Takehisa studied ancient national road and site of a station. Y. Tomatsuri studied ancient landscape and castle town. H. Sohma studied site of an ancient temple and climatic landscape. A. Sekido studied mountain villages. N. Ogata studied vegetation cover and new town in Tokyo. A. Funakosi studied history of aerial photography in Japan.