出版社：National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要：There is a genre of folding-screen paintings called Rakuchū rakugai-zu (Scenes in and around the Capital), which captures the early capital of Kyoto from a birds-eye view. The-se paintings, which usually come in the form of a pair of six-panel folding screens, capture in detail Kyoto's famous temples and shrines, the Imperial Palace, warrior residences, various shops as well as the townspeople (Kano, 1997). The collections of painted folding screens called Rakuchū rakugai-zu were made during the transition from the late Middle Ages (Muromachi period; 16th century) through the Modern Era (Edo period; 18th century).Currently, there are around 200 Rakuchū rakugai-zu folding screens both in Japan and abroad. High-resolution digital images of the folding screens have been recently made open to the public online and have promoted interdisciplinary research, serving as a good example for Digital Humanities research.So far we have created GIS-based geo-spatial data including old topographic maps and picture maps of Kyoto. These old Kyoto maps could be used to compare with the Rakuchū rakugai-zu folding screens. Our WebGIS-based application allows more than browsing a folding screen; it allows the comparison of multiple folding screens, as well as between the folding screens and old picture maps, current maps and satellite images that corresponding to the folding screen. This was achieved by first creating a portal site of the folding screens, through which the folding screens can be easily searched and browsed using a web-based system. An applica-tion was then made to allow viewing of two windows at the same time, with functions for en-larging/reducing and zooming maps and the folding screens by using Google Maps API or GitHub libraries.
关键词：Folding Screens of Rakuchū rakugai-zu; picture map; portal site; Web GIS; historical GIS; Kyoto
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