LANDSCAPE VISUALIZATION OF EDO CITY

Abstract

Artists such as Hiroshige and Hokusai created many wonderful city scenes by skillfully incorporating topography such as Mt. Fuji and Edo Bay and view of Edo Castle into landscape pictures. The landscape paintings were however just illustrated ones of famous places; the actual states of landscape of Edo City are still not clear. The research is an attempt to visualize landscape of Edo. In concrete terms, the distortion of an old map of Edo was corrected and the topographic data was created. Information concerning building structures in Edo City and Edo Castle, particularly height, was also ascertained. Considering all these results together, a system of visualizing city scenes of Edo was constructed.