A method for transformation of 3D space into Ukiyo-e composition

  • Authors:
  • Yuka Kubo;Zhao Jie;Koichi Hirota

  • Affiliations:
  • Tokyo University, Japan;Tokyo University, Japan;Tokyo University, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 artgallery: emerging technologies
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In 1739, Western perspective drawing reached Japan via China. Before then, Japanese drawing, known as Yamato-e, had depicted architectural space through parallel projection. This was true for the ukiyo-e compositions that were popular among the general public during the Edo Era as well (see Figure 1.a). For some time after perspective drawing reached Japan in 1739, ukiyo-e artists created ukiyo-e compositions that incorporated perspective drawing called uki-e (see Figure 1.b). However, this movement was short lived, and after 1800, ukiyo-e artists created compositions using their own type of structure that did not conform to perspective drawing. [Kuroda 17] [Oka 92] [Kishi 94] [Yokochi 95] Works from this time by artists such as Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige also became influential in the West through the Japonism movement of the 1860s. Figure 2 typifies the style of ukiyo-e composition from the 1800s.