日光・中禅寺湖畔における外国人別荘地の形成

Abstract

Lake Chuzenji in Nikko is one of the famous foreigners resort that became prosperous from Meiji Era in Japan. Several cottages are now on existing, but recently Lakeside area is more famous sight seeing spot than foreigners resort. The foreigner cottage area of Chuzenji lakeside is formed around the minister and the diplomats from opportunity, the 21st year of Meiji, and it grows to be a scale that it is called with the foreigner cottage zone in opportunity, the 30th year of Meiji. An embassy cottage was built, too, and a cottage had the character that moved the foreigner of the minister and the diplomats upper classes to the center except for the individual cottage. "Tokyo Angling and Country Club" of the "Marunuma Fishing Club" rest which aimed at the amusement which was characteristic of the foreigner of Fly-Fishing is made in Showa term since Taisho end. It has a role as a place of the interchange of the diplomats and Japanese upper class people. There was a reason that the most part of the cottage owner of Chuzenji lakeside was a foreigner, too, and fell into the decline with war's beginning.