A magnetic resonance imaging method and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus are provided, which can obtain a high-quality image at high speed without obstructions, such as an artifact by a distribution of a magnetic susceptibility and a myoneural stimulus by an eddy current using only radio frequency magnetic field (rotating magnetic field) gradients so as to obtain positional information. This magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprises a phase encoding coil (2x) and a frequency encoding coil (2y) for applying radio frequency magnetic field gradient pulses to a sample, placed in a static magnetic field, respectively, in two axial directions which do not include a static magnetic field direction among three axial directions being mutually orthogonal, which include the direction of the static magnetic field as one axis, a detector (21) for detecting a transient nutation signal generated in the sample, the transient nutation signal being included in the radio frequency magnetic field gradient pulse obtained through the frequency encoding coil (2y), and a storage and arithmetic unit (24) for obtaining a magnetic resonance image of the sample by storing and arithmetically operating the signal obtained through the detector.