Comparison of Children's Sense of Color in Mongolia and Japan

Abstract

In art education, understanding children's sense of color will lead to effective color instruction. It can be said that color sense is developed over a long period of time while being influenced by the natural environment in which people live.
Therefore, I thought it would be possible to understand the characteristics of the Japanese sense of color more clearly by comparing it with that of Mongolia, a country with a very different natural environment from Japan.
In this study, I conducted a survey with the aim of clarifying the actual conditions of color sense of Mongolian and Japanese children, respectively. The survey method was a questionnaire (descriptive form) administered to children in both countries on the colors they imagine from familiar objects (familiar nature and seasons such as the sky, mountains, and the sea), the objects they imagine from colors, and the children's preferences for colors. As a result, some of the responses from the two countries were not significantly different. However, there were marked differences in items related to the sea and sky, the sun and moon, and the seasons, confirming that there are differences in color sense.