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Computer graphic animations, analysis and the internet publication relating to Edo era's KARAKURI dolls and modern educational mechanism models

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16500547
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Science education
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

SHIROSHITA Sohei  Kyoto University, The Kyoto University Museum, Associate Professor, 総合博物館, 助教授 (80026252)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KUMAMOTO Hiromitsu  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics, Professor, 情報学研究科, 教授 (10109019)
NAGAHIRA Yukio  Osaka University of Economics and law, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 教養部, 教授 (20122195)
NISHIHARA Osamu  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics, Associate Professor, 情報学研究科, 助教授 (00218182)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
KeywordsKARAKURI dolls / Educational mechanism models / Animations / Internet publication / Modern mechanical technology / Machine elements / KARAKURI-ZUI / Edo era / 茶運人形 / ルロー機械機構模型 / ホームページ公開 / からくり人形 / 機械メカニズム / ルロー模型 / Reuleaux / ウェブ
Research Abstract

The KARAKURI dolls, which were in Japan in the Edo era before the Meiji era when modern machine technology was imported from European and American developed nations, perform complicated movements only by mechanical mechanism. The machine mechanisms realizing those movements are included in the modern machine technology. Machine mechanisms of KARAKURI dolls are illustrated in the Edo era machine books "KARAKURI-ZUI" and "KARAKURI-KINMOU-KAGAMIKUSA". However, the drawn diagrams are too partial and are hard to understand intuitively. Because a tea-serving doll includes various machine mechanisms, authors made mechanism diagrams about each movement of it in this study, and the diagrams can be easily understood to anyone. Movements of a doll are a mechanism of a start and a stop, a mechanism of foot's moving back and forth, a mechanism in which a doll bows, a mechanism of a turn, and an escapement. And the animations also were made by authors. Those animations were put on a website of The Kyoto University Museum. The machine technology in the Edo era was inspected by comparing those and Reuleaux educational models which show the modern machine technology. In addition, authors compared and inspected the machine elements which are included in a KARAKUIRI doll and Reuleaux models. The authors also made animations about a DANGAERI doll and performed similar things. From the above-mentioned examination, it made clear that the mechanical technology in the KARAKURI was not applied to industry widely in Japan because there was not the technology to be able to cut metal precisely, even though the level of the machine mechanism of KARAKURI in Edo era using the wood, the thread and a whisker of whale was high.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2005 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2005 2004

All Journal Article (12 results)

  • [Journal Article] からくりのルロー模型との対比による機械メカニズム解析2005

    • Author(s)
      城下荘平
    • Journal Title

      技術史教育学会 2005年度総会研究発表講演論文集

      Pages: 37-39

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] ルロー模型との対比によるからくり内部メカニズムの解析とアニメーション製作2005

    • Author(s)
      城下荘平
    • Journal Title

      日本機械学会2005年度年次大会講演論文集 (Vol.5)

      Pages: 29-30

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] A mechanism analysis of KARAKURI dolls of Edo era by comparison with Reuleaux models2005

    • Author(s)
      Sohei Shiroshita
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Fifth China-Japan International Conference On History of Mechanical Technology and Mechanical Design

      Pages: 38-47

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] ルロー模型とからくり人形に用いられている機械要素のデータベースの構築2005

    • Author(s)
      城下荘平
    • Journal Title

      日本機械学会「技術と社会」部門2005年度年次大会講演論文集

      Pages: 115-118

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report 2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] A mechanism analysis of KARAKURI dolls by comparison with Reuleaux models (In Japanese)2005

    • Author(s)
      Sohei Shiroshita
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of annual conference of JSEHT in 2005

      Pages: 37-39

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] An Analysis of the Internal Mechanism of KARAKURI Dolls in Comparison with Reuleaux Models and the Production of the Animations (In Japanese)2005

    • Author(s)
      Sohei Shiroshita
    • Journal Title

      2005 JSME Annual Meeting Vol.5

      Pages: 29-30

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Construction of Data Base of Machine Elements Used in the KARAKURI Dolls and Reuleaux Mechanism Models (In Japanese)2005

    • Author(s)
      Sohei Shiroshita
    • Journal Title

      2005 JSME TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY DIVISION Annual Meeting

      Pages: 115-118

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] からくりのルロー模型との対比による機械メカニズム解析2005

    • Author(s)
      城下荘平
    • Journal Title

      技術史教育学会2005年度総会研究発表講演論文集

      Pages: 37-39

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ルロー模型との対比によるからくり内部メカニズムの解析とアニメーション製作2005

    • Author(s)
      城下荘平
    • Journal Title

      日本機械学会2005年度年次大会講演論文集 Vol.5

      Pages: 29-30

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] A mechanism analysis of KARAKURI dolls of Edo era by comparison with Reuleaux models2005

    • Author(s)
      Sohei Shiroshita
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Fifth China-Japan International Conference on History of Mechanical Technology and Mechanical Design

      Pages: 38-47

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ルロー機械メカニズム模型との対比による江戸時代からくりの機械メカニズム解析2004

    • Author(s)
      城下荘平
    • Journal Title

      第4回日中機械技術史及び機械設計国際会議論文集

      Pages: 90-95

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] KARAKURI dolls as a background in which Japan was able to accept the modern mechanical technology2004

    • Author(s)
      Sohei Shiroshita
    • Journal Title

      The 2nd International Conference on Business and Technology Transfer (Proceedings)

      Pages: 1-6

    • NAID

      110004057872

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2004-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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