The purpose of this study is to propose a landscape development method for Japanese gardens. To that end, I investigated the Manpuku-ji Garden, which famous being created by Sesshu. A subjective evaluation experiment was conducted with 53 subjects and 99 garden photographs, 12 were identified in corridor Temple, on Nure-en, 1 preferred viewpoint room, 6 gazing areas.

Westerners’ perceptions tend to focus on salient foreground objects, whereas Asians are more inclined to focus on contexts. We hypothesized that such culturally specific patterns of attention may be afforded by the perceptual environment of each culture. In order to test this hypothesis, we randomly sampled pictures of scenes from small, medium, and large cities in Japan and the United States. ...