A Study on the Landscape Classification in the Ukiyoe Paintings of Hiroshige

An Analysis of the Cultural Differences between China and Japan, Using the Example of Gleaning Shellfish at the Falling Tide and Busy with Crops

“…The Yamato people of Japan were people who believed in nature as a god, and those who obeyed it prospered, and those who disobeyed it perished. Many legends were also related to nature and animals, so most of their paintings were related to nature, such as Katsushika Hokusai's Surfing in Kanagawa [13]; whereas China was willing to believe in divine power, such as the traditional ruling mindset -the divine right of kings, etc. Confucius held a respectful attitude toward ghosts and gods, so the paintings were also more inclined toward figure painting and the painter's inner feelings of the artist [14].…”

A Study of Landscape Features in the Coastal Area of the Seto Inland Sea Based on Landscape Paintings

“…Since then, local governments and organizations have begun to develop their own landscape planning, an essential part of which is the preservation and regeneration of “good scenery” mentioned in the Landscape Law [ 1 ]. At the same time, in addition to conducting questionnaires and expert evaluations, scholars have also used local resources to explore excellent local landscape characteristics from an academic perspective, such as local landscape paintings [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ], poems [ 9 ], folk songs [ 10 ], etc. Among them, landscape paintings provide a more abundant and objective representation of the “good and distinctive local scenery” mentioned in the Landscape Law, and so they are widely used in local landscape analysis; thus, comprehensive research on landscape paintings is fundamental and necessary for the subsequent landscape planning work.…”

“…To avoid interference from other information in landscape feature analysis, the features that are highly related to the landscape’s element configuration and color features can be selected. In terms of spatial information, landscape elements at different distances have commonly been analyzed in previous studies [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ], which can simplify and effectively clarify the spatial arrangement features of landscape elements; other features, such as angle or depth, put more emphasis on viewpoint features, which require more information about the viewpoint where the painter painted. Thus, in this study, we selected three features to comprehensively analyze landscape paintings: (1) the element configuration, (2) the color as planar information, and (3) the element arrangement as spatial information.…”