Construction of a System for Browsing Kosode Byobu to Help Ordinary People Understand Features of Cultural Properties

摘要

Recently, many digital archives are published to preserve and share valuable cultural properties. Nevertheless, these archives are often constructed for experts. Ordinary people often have difficulty understanding the value of these properties. The Kosode Byobu collection is such a valuable cultural property, exhibiting clothing and fashion culture of the Edo period. The collection is too profound for ordinary people to understand. Therefore, it is necessary to construct a browsing system to help ordinary people appreciate the collection. Accordingly, we constructed a system for browsing the Kosode Byobu collection. Results show that it has become possible to review the transition of Edo Period fashion and examples of decorating techniques at a glance.