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This treatise investigates on the view of ideal space in the East-asia by analysing every period's poems in Chinese of China, Korea and Japan. All the East asian people in China, Korea and Japan have thought that Mureungdowon(武陵桃源) which appeared first time in Dohwawongi(桃花源記) by Do, Yeun Myung(陶淵明) is utopia itself. At last they believed Mureungdowon really exists somewhere in this world and aspire to reach at. The view of Mureungdowon in the East asia can be divided into two as like, ① the spiritual utopia where the Taoist hermits live ② the ideal space where the people who had escaped from the tyranny of the first Emperor of Chin empire are living still. The literati of Korea and Japan who couldn't step in Mureungdowon in China had discovered another utopias similar with Dohwawon(桃花源) in their own country like Chunhak valley(靑鶴洞), Bongnae mountain(蓬萊山), Ubock valley(牛腹洞), Sodongchun(小洞天). The reasons why Mureungdowon could be the utopia of the East asian transcending the time and the space can be explained as like ① human can not reach to Heaven during lifetime ② so they regarded Mureungdowon which can be reached in lifetime as the paradisiacal land, settling it the second best ③ but lastly anyone couldn't find the place ④ at the result of it, they described it in the form of poet or painted it instead of finding it in the real world. Consequently, Mureungdowon could be the everlasting utopia in the heart of the East asian. Repeatedly, the East asia people who had endured innumerous troubles ① had not the power to change their destiny ② but couldn't die simply ③ had amused theirselves aspiring Mureungdowon as an utopia. The Mureungdowon that Do, Yeun Myung described as the best ideal place in the world, though it was not the real, was the ideal space in the dream gave the amusement and the hope to the life and thought of the East asia people.