2017 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 3-13
There are several previous studies about the colour theories of modern Japan, but there remain some other unclear questions. Particularly, it is not clear how the colour theories which developed in Europe and America were accepted and developed to Japan. And it is not clear about the circumstance of Japan in that times. In this article, firstly I survey the modern European and American colour theories which flows into Japan and were accepted. Secondly, I arrange how the Japanese pre-modern colour theories were thought before European and American colour theories were accepted in modern Japan. Furthermore, I examine how the colour theories accepted after modern times developed based on the documents such as "Irozu” and so on. And I study mainly on documents about the art education and the activity of the leaders who played a big role in colour theories development in Japan. Through these consideration, I inspect historically development of the modern Japanese colour theories.