The Color Revolution: Printed Books In Eighteenth-Century Japan

Beginning in the mid-1760s, images printed in more than five colors in early modern Japan were known as nishiki-e 錦絵, or “brocade pictures,” an appellation that signaled their visual richness in distinction to prints in monochrome or limited color. Most accounts of full-color printing locate the development of this technology and its visual impact in the medium of the single-sheet print, as part of the genre of ukiyo-e 浮世絵 (the “pictures of the floating world”). This project revises that view by considering the illustrated books produced in the full-color technique, which predate or appear contemporaneously with the so-called “nishiki-e revolution.” Closely analyzing the materiality and visual programs of these books reveals how their use of printed color not only constitutes an important shift in technical practices of printing, but also signals a wider engagement with the artistic, social, and scientific discourses of mid-eighteenth century Japan. Ranging from interest in the natural world to painting, from poetry to scientific classification, from elite milieux to commercial publishers, these illustrated books demonstrate the convergence of a diverse set of concerns upon the particular medium of the color-printed, thread-bound book. The three case studies analyzed in this dissertation take up books differentiated by subject matter, style, and artistic genres. The first two chapters examine a book of fishes and its sequel, on the theme of plants and insects; both books are genre-bending works that combine concerns of poetry, natural studies, and painting. The third chapter considers two picture books of the floating world (ukiyo-ehon 浮世絵本), which feature actors and prostitutes of the pleasure quarter, respectively. Tracing the movement of printed “full color” from its emergence in the context of coterie poetry groups to its later status as a commercial imperative, this study reframes the earliest full-color illustrated books as critical artifacts of technological and epistemological change for picture-making and print in early modern Japan, centered around the materiality and conceptual power of color

A Robust Approach to Find the Control Points for Wide Variety of 3rd Order Bzier Curves

This paper represents a new approach that can recover the control points for wide variety of 3rd order BE9;zier curves. In this regards, the two stage approximation learning algorithm is adopted with some modifications. At 1st stage our key feature is segmentation of the curve which can determine intermediate points of the wide variety of curves. In this respect, an efficient recursive algorithm is used to find out the height of the curve (h) with less iteration. The proposed approach introduced horizontal segmentation rather than vertical segmentation. Different height (H), where the 2nd and 3rd control point are assumed, and also the step-size (2202;), at which the control points are moved toward the actual direction, are used to find out the exact location of the control points. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposing method can recover control points for wide variety of curves with minimum error level and less iteration. Wide variety of curve shapes are used to test the proposing approach and results are presented to prove its effectivenes

Fuzzy Model For Human Face Expression Recognition

Facial expression recognition plays a vital and effective role within the interaction between man and computer. In this project, brand new system supported the mathematical logic is projected for this purpose. Fuzzy is one helpful approach for fuzzy classification, which might verify the intrinsic division in an exceedingly set of untagged knowledge and notice representatives for undiversified teams. This method acknowledges seven basic facial expressions particularly concern, surprise, happy, sad, disgust, Neutral and anger. For description of detail face facial features, Face Action writing (FACS) was style. First, we tend to gift a unique methodology for facial region extraction from static image. For determination of face effective areas is employed from integral projection curves. This methodology has high ability in intelligent choice of areas in facial features recognition system. Extracted face expression fed to fuzzy rule based mostly system for facial features recognition. Results of tests indicate that the projected theme for facial features recognition is powerful, with smart accuracy and generating superior results as compared to different approaches. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15052

Anglo-American poetry and Japan, 1900-1950: A critical bibliography

From the advent of literary Japonisme late in the nineteenth century through the literary and cultural upheavals of the twentieth century Japanese literature, visual arts, aesthetic principles, and landscapes imaginative and real have attracted the attention of many of the most remarkable and remarked upon poets of Britain and the United States. This work provides a critical and bibliographical overview of the works that constitute the textual fabric of this attraction, focusing particularly on the first half of the twentieth century, when Japan first emerged as a determinative presence in Anglo-American verse. The introduction, 'Anglo-American Poetry and the Special Case of Japan', places the work under study in historical context, and is followed by four bibliographical sections. Section A, 'Critical and Comparative Studies', provides a chronological listing of general secondary works that have addressed the use of Japanese subjects and forms in Anglo-American poetry. Section B, 'Poets Central to the Study', provides chronological listings of primary and secondary materials by and about twelve writers whose mediation of Japanese subjects and forms was most significant among Anglo-American poets active from 1900 to 1950: Conrad Aiken, Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Witter Bynner, William Empson, Arthur Davison Ficke, John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, William Plomer, Ezra Pound, and W. B. Yeats. Section C, 'Other Materials', includes selected listings of works by and about other Anglo-American poets whose mediation of Japanese materials has been significant (CA), a selected listing of relevant archives (CB), and a selected listing of secondary works that focus on the larger influence of Japan in the West (CC). Section D, 'Sources of Influence and Transmission', provides a bibliographical overview of the writers and texts that have provided Anglo-American poets with many of their images and understandings of Japan and Japanese forms

War and Anime in the Age of Machine-Oriented Ontology : The Case of OSHII Mamoru

This paper explores Oshii Mamoru\u27s films and animations. First, his view of the cinematic citation (appropriation) is analyzed in some comparison with Jean-Luc Godard. Second, his preoccupation with the plot of the weird duality between reality and dream is examined with plural contexts of cultural avant-garde in the 20th century. Third, the question of why Oshii Mmoru has been so much interested in the warfare in his works. Through the series of problematics, this essay would locate his perspective in some philosophical and ontological debates, in which Deleuze & Guattari and others must be addressed. Then, his insightful but provocative statements on the war and history are interpreted in the philosophical streamwhich I would like to call Machine-Oriented Ontology

24th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases

In the last three decades information modelling and knowledge bases have become essentially important subjects not only in academic communities related to information systems and computer science but also in the business area where information technology is applied. The series of European – Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC) originally started as a co-operation initiative between Japan and Finland in 1982. The practical operations were then organised by professor Ohsuga in Japan and professors Hannu Kangassalo and Hannu Jaakkola in Finland (Nordic countries). Geographical scope has expanded to cover Europe and also other countries. Workshop characteristic - discussion, enough time for presentations and limited number of participants (50) / papers (30) - is typical for the conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Conceptual modelling: Modelling and specification languages; Domain-specific conceptual modelling; Concepts, concept theories and ontologies; Conceptual modelling of large and heterogeneous systems; Conceptual modelling of spatial, temporal and biological data; Methods for developing, validating and communicating conceptual models. 2. Knowledge and information modelling and discovery: Knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and knowledge management; Advanced data mining and analysis methods; Conceptions of knowledge and information; Modelling information requirements; Intelligent information systems; Information recognition and information modelling. 3. Linguistic modelling: Models of HCI; Information delivery to users; Intelligent informal querying; Linguistic foundation of information and knowledge; Fuzzy linguistic models; Philosophical and linguistic foundations of conceptual models. 4. Cross-cultural communication and social computing: Cross-cultural support systems; Integration, evolution and migration of systems; Collaborative societies; Multicultural web-based software systems; Intercultural collaboration and support systems; Social computing, behavioral modeling and prediction. 5. Environmental modelling and engineering: Environmental information systems (architecture); Spatial, temporal and observational information systems; Large-scale environmental systems; Collaborative knowledge base systems; Agent concepts and conceptualisation; Hazard prediction, prevention and steering systems. 6. Multimedia data modelling and systems: Modelling multimedia information and knowledge; Contentbased multimedia data management; Content-based multimedia retrieval; Privacy and context enhancing technologies; Semantics and pragmatics of multimedia data; Metadata for multimedia information systems. Overall we received 56 submissions. After careful evaluation, 16 papers have been selected as long paper, 17 papers as short papers, 5 papers as position papers, and 3 papers for presentation of perspective challenges. We thank all colleagues for their support of this issue of the EJC conference, especially the program committee, the organising committee, and the programme coordination team. The long and the short papers presented in the conference are revised after the conference and published in the Series of “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence” by IOS Press (Amsterdam). The books “Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases” are edited by the Editing Committee of the conference. We believe that the conference will be productive and fruitful in the advance of research and application of information modelling and knowledge bases. Bernhard Thalheim Hannu Jaakkola Yasushi Kiyok

Striking Chords II: Music in Ukiyo-e Prints (2022)

The theme of music in ukiyo-e prints has been explored by the RISD art history students for two semesters (fall 2021 and spring 2022) in a hands-on curatorial format. The resulting exhibition Striking Chords: Music in Ukiyo-e Prints, is on view at the RISD Museum from February through July 2022. The spring semester project is virtual. However, the approach is similar – to comprehensively study music-related prints in the collection of the RISD Museum and to share the findings with interested audiences, albeit in digital format. Nineteen prints have been selected. In the exhibition’s virtual space, they are displayed according to thematic areas. Those display areas include prints illustrating music played for leisure – sometimes solely for pleasure but occasionally for celebratory occurrences or for moral instruction. Another area shows prints associated with professional performers – actors of the kabuki theater, chanters of the puppet theater, or street entertainers. There are also sections dedicated to prints that depict music performed within mythical lore, or ceremonial music as well as martial music. ... By close visual exploration of this selection of prints, by investigating circumstances of the scenes represented and peculiarities of the objects depicted, by striving to uncover cultural references imbedded in these images, by listening to music played on the instruments depicted students who curated this exhibition sought to come closer to the beautiful and intriguing world of ukiyo-e prints. The sound continues for but a moment, ukiyo-e prints were designed as ephemera, but their resonance appears timeless. We hope that this exhibition’s virtual visitors will echo these sentiments. -- Foreword, Striking Chords II: Music in Ukiyo-e Prints Contributing Authors Leslie Berumen Flores, Alisa Boardman, Junyi Cao, Yuhi Chang, Connie Cheng, Meicheng Chi, Cyra Cupid, Monet Fukawa, Nina Hong, Ryan Hsiao, Rose Kim, Timothy Li, Jessica Lin, Baidurjya Madhav, Jae Nam, Maxton O\u27Connor, Jiyeon Park, Zhiying Shi, Hanna Suros, Milo Tomizawa, Kevin Wu, Jingjing Yang, Yisheng Yuan, Jiayun Carina Zhang, Zizheng Roye Zhang, Alex Jihao Zhu.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/thad_studentwork_ukiyo-e_prints_exhibitioncatalogs/1009/thumbnail.jp

Charles Ricketts and Japan: British Japonisme of the second generation from the 1880s to the 1930s

Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) was a versatile British artist who worked as a theatre designer, painter, sculptor, book designer, art critic, connoisseur, and collector. This thesis explores Ricketts’s Japonisme: the interaction between Ricketts and Japanese art and people through his work and collection from the 1880s to the 1930s. This represents the comparatively little-explored period of the second generation of Japonists, who flourished in London. Chapter 1 examines the development of the Japanese art collection that Ricketts and his partner Charles Shannon jointly established. It also provides a comprehensive analysis of the collection bequeathed to the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Chapter 2 focuses on Ricketts as a scholarly Japonist. Following an exploration of his interaction with Japanese people in London, the chapter explores Japanese art studies in Britain at that time and Ricketts’s Japanese art criticism regarding ukiyo-e artist, Kitagawa Utamaro and the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 in London. Chapter 3 discusses Ricketts’s artworks and their connection to Japanese art. It explores his theatre designs, book designs, paintings, and sculptures, especially theatrical costume designs