The study of social model of the nobility in Meiji era, based in historical informatics

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We completed enumeration survey to the visiting card size pho-tographs(otherwise known as "Carte de Visite" in French) in Japan and outside, and dig-itized them. Through our research results using digital data of them, we analyzed the process of saving, consumption, production and distribution of visiting card size photo-graphs, and focused on the production of visual image and its connection to the public through the print medium. We tried to rebuild communication model and the social model of people who were well-placed socially in the Meiji era. Through these researches, we de-coded "historical information" from photographic materials that were ever utilized inade-quately as historical materials to lay the foundation for building the new historical and social image.