Digital Reconstruction of a Historical Kabuki Theater

Author

Furukawa, Kohei ; Akama, Ryo ; Hirose, Chisako ; Hachimura, Kozaburo

Author_Institution

Coll. of Image Arts & Sci., Ritsumeikan Univ., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1160

Lastpage

1163

Abstract

A purpose of this research is digitally reconstruct old Kabuki theater in Japan during the Edo period. Kabuki theaters and Kabuki played were important features of cultures in the Edo period. Reconstructing these by 3D CG helps us to represent the spectacle of Edo culture. In this research, we tried to reconstruct historial theater, Kanamaru-za that was refurbished in 1976, but conveys the structure, mechanisms and atmosphere of theaters in Edo period. This is the first step for restoring cultures of performing arts in that period.

Keywords

art; computer graphics; digital libraries; history; image reconstruction; information retrieval systems; 3D CG image; Edo period arts; Edo period culture; Japan; Kanamaru-za setup; digital archives; digital historical Kabuki theater reconstruction; Art; Atmosphere; Character generation; Cities and towns; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; Image reconstruction; Image restoration; Painting; Production; 3D CG; Kabuki Theater; Keywords - Digital archives;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, 2009. IIH-MSP '09. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4717-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3762-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIH-MSP.2009.306

Filename

5337567