本文是台灣總督府台北高等學校（在日治時期存在24年的高等教育機關）學生文藝相關研究之一環，討論日本校友如何建立對於台北的意象。主要以《絵本台北の歌（繪本台北之歌）》作為分析素材，而這是該校的校友田中一郎在戰後遣返回到日本之後編輯發行的共27頁的小冊子。他在台北居住的這12年（1934-1946）當中，曾就讀台北市立樺山尋常小學校以及台北州立台北第二中學校，在中學校畢業之後進入台北高等學校，並於1943年畢業。《絵本台北の歌》收錄由詩作、散文、版畫所構成的21篇小作品。本文的研究將各篇所展現的台北意象歸納為：（1）牧歌的、（2）都會性、（3）生命力、（4）台灣性四大類，並說明各自的特色。接著從作者的學校生活，以及他與當時的文化人之間的交流兩個面向去探討這種台北意象是如何形成的。最後則分析作品中充滿鄉愁的因素，從田中戰後在日本的生活環境以及各種遭遇，包括遣返日本的經驗、與同窗生的交流，討論曾經居住在台北的日本人究竟如何記憶台北的生活空間，而這些記憶對他們而言具有何種意義？故本論文嘗試以台北高校日本籍校友的生命經驗為例，進行深入的思考。

This study is one of the researches concerning students literary works of Taihoku Higher School (a higher educational institution existing in Taiwan for 24 years during the Japanese colonial period), and discusses how Japanese alumni built images for Taipei and why they had such memories for the city. The study chiefly analyzes the 27-page booklet of Picture Book: Songs of Taihoku, a collection of 21 works of poems, articles and prints edited and published by Ichiro Tanaka, a Japanese alumnus of the school, after he returned to Japan after World War II. During his 12-year (1934-1946) residence in Taipei, he had studied at Kabayama Normal Elementary School and Taihoku Prefectural Second Middle School and graduated from Taihoku Higher School in 1943. This study classifies Taipei images in each work into four types: (1) pastoral, (2) metropolitan, (3) vital, and (4) Taiwanese, with characteristics of each type illustrated respectively. Secondly, this study probes into how these Taipei images were formed based on the school life of Tanaka and his social contact with cultural workers. Lastly, the study tries to answer why these literary works are filled with nostalgia by focusing on Tanaka’s postwar living environment (including his experience of being repatriated to Japan and his contacts with former classmates), in order to explore how Japanese who used to live in Taipei remember the city and what meanings this memory has brought to them.