Cognitive characteristics of Japanese garden and gardens of Western countries

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24380015
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Horticulture/Landscape architecture
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: Fujii Eijiro 千葉大学, 園芸学研究科, 教授 (40125951)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MIYAZAKI Yoshihumi 千葉大学, 環境健康フィールド科学センター, 教授 (40126256) ; SHO Shunka 千葉大学, 大学院園芸学研究科, 教授 (40375613)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 日本庭園 / 幾何学式庭園 / 風景式庭園 / 認知特性 / 眼球運動 / 脳血流 / 印象評価 / 透かし剪定

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The cognitive effects of axial and see-through compositions were experimentally analyzed using paired planting and pruned tree with sukashi-teehnique, respectively. Paired planting decreases eye fixation and contrarily sukashi-pruned tree brings more eye fixation. And, the comparison of eye movement and cerebral blood flow viewing several leaf-color of Ivy clarified that increment of eye fixation coincides with activation of somatosensory area, and vice versa. Finally the comparison of eye movement between Japanese, geometric and landscape gardens clarified eye fixations of both Japanese and Canadian subjects were longer in the Japanese garden than landscape and geometric gardens. And, we conclude Japanese garden brings more eye fixation because of its asymmetric and see-through compositions, and we estimate to activate somatosensory area, because the degree of artifice in Japanese garden is absolutely different from Chinese and Korean gardens even though look natural.

Free Research Field

造園学