浮世絵의 情報性과 그 行方

Abstract

Today, the image media in the information society has a greater part in forming sets of values and arts and changes them in various fields. However, as for Japan, it was not until the modern society that such visual media accrues those changes. In the Edo Period of the 19th of Japan, the change of social consciousness occurred by the medium of visual information. Accordingly, it is essential to figure out anew such media of the Edo Period on understanding the current media culture. Ukiyo-e was the art of forming popular culture in the Edo and played a key role in transmitting information. We can fully make it out great efforts to complete colorful Nishiki-e through production process in that time. On the other hand, with that, there was plentiful of current information of the society which could be expressed through Ukiyo-e. While up to now Ukiyo-e is being handled as artistic works placing a value on the art field, this paper focused on the informative power of Ukiyo-e accompanying with the theory of media and went into the Sini-e, Nagasaki-e as detailed examples on understanding the information strength of Ukiyo-e and its traces.