Visualization and Categorization of the Other in Ukiyo-e

本研究使用浮世绘(日本木刻版画)的影像资料库，系统而详尽地进行研究。通过这样做，它打算探索数字人文科学对视觉研究的作用，即对生产和消费印刷品的社会群体及其文化的研究。本研究以浮世绘为研究对象，探讨浮世绘作为近代早期市民所共有的视觉文化。这项研究考察了这种特定的媒介是如何表现和可视化另一种媒介的，揭示了另一种媒介的分类--它的构建、维护和转换。

This research uses image databases of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints) systematically as well as exhaustively. By doing so, it intends to explore how useful digital humanities could be for visual studies, i.e., the studies of social groups that produced and consumed the prints, and their culture. In this case study, this research focuses on ukiyo-e as visual culture shared by the townspeople in the early modern period. Examining how this specific media represented and visualized the Other, the research reveals categorization of the Other--its construction, maintenance, and transformation.