Abstract
This paper describes the process of construction of costume culture image database system. Now, this database is dealing with 20,000 costume image data in about 100 year Japan since Meiji restoration. The basic image data adopted is a picture and a photograph in the concerned period. This database is useful for the study and the education of ethnology and art. And it is also useful for making the scene of movie and stage. First, the view of an image index is described. Second, the retrieval items and the thesaurus <costume concept code table 2003> developed from the thesaurus <costume concept code table 2001> are described. One of the characteristics of this code table is to have the codes for retrieve the 'costume in a scene'. Lastly, retrieval system is described and retrieval process is presented.
