Interdisciplinary study Documents about physiognomy of --- Analysis and Application of Classical Physiognomical Books with bringing Manga Into View

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12853
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: National Institute of Japanese Literature
• Principal Investigator: AIDA Mitsuru 国文学研究資料館, 研究部, 准教授 (00249921)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MITTA Akihiro 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (00277865) ; YAMADA Shoji 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 教授 (20248751) ; MATSUI Tomoko 統計数理研究所, モデリング研究系, 教授 (10370090) ; ABOU Hiroshi 群馬県立女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (60271483) ; KURANAKA Shinobu 大東文化大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (40215041)
• Research Collaborator: NO Sung-hwan 蔚山大学校, 人文大学, 教授 ; HUAN Yu 国文学研究資料館, プロジェクト研究員 ; PRIMIANI Oleg
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 肖像 / データベース / 画像認識 / 観相 / 和漢比較文学 / マンガ / 古典絵画 / 説話文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

① Field investigation of the viewpoint: Currently, the number of specialized fortune-telling people has increased, but most of the professional craftsmen of human face appraisal can not be confirmed domestically and abroad.②Informatical viewpoint achievement: In order to prove the influence relationship with paintings, I strengthened the database of topic maps about physiognomy.In addition, I had got good results by conducting an experiment of judgment of each part of the human face applying the Deep-learning method[by using support vector machine, SVM].Especially the nose was the best result.This part is also a place where attention is focused on Japanese classical painting theory and early childhood education.This result is expected to be an effective point of view for manga analysis as well.
Meanwhile, I got research reports from Italy and Korea. Because the ban on idolatry and superstitions are not favored, interest in research of physiognomy is not high.

Free Research Field

和漢比較文学