A research on a feeling of strangeness - Science of "Otsu" in Japanese traditional culture and crafts -

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12130
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Kansei informatics
• Research Institution: Kyoto Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Kuwahara Noriaki 京都工芸繊維大学, 総合教育センター, 教授 (60395168)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 日本の伝統文化 / いけばな / 様式美 / 違和感

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we examined "a sense of beauty" of flower arrangement of traditional Japanese culture. Then, we focused on "strangeness" which is difficult for experts to linguistically and logically express to the work. We investigated a methodology to decompose this "strangeness" into the main elements and to quantify each element. Firstly, we examined a sense of strangeness that people feel about paintings or images whose aspect ratios was changed, and a sense of strangeness that is perceived as impossible solids. Next, we evaluated Shoka style of Ikebana Ikenobo which we developed three-dimensional models and evaluated a sense of beauty to their shape. Furthermore, we examined elements of beauty inherent in the style. As a result, we have revealed that feeling of strangeness and aesthetic sense are related to human memory and are cultivated through training.

Free Research Field

感性工学