Abstract
An investigated has been made o the impressions of kimono patterns received by test subjects. And then, a comparison has benn made among impressions at their first, second, and third sights. The test subjects were 19- and 20-years old students, and the stimuli were 8 types of kimono patterns. The test subjects expressed their opinions about each stimulus (kimonopattern) in five stages, using nine adjective pairs. The same survey was repeated three times for group A at a three-week interval and twice for group B at a five-week interval. The Author measured the amount of transmitted information for each stimulus (kimonopattern), and obtained the following results. The relationships between the mean of evaluating values and the amount of transmitted information differed from each other for the nine adjective pairs. The answers for‘bright-dark’ and ‘feminine’ yielded some extreme responses, and the subjects were able to easily evaluate the images easily. The subjects tended to have more extreme responses for the bright and feminine images at the second and third sights than those at the first sight of the pattern. Moreover, more amount of transmitted information was provided on most of the adjective pairs with each sight. It appeared that the less amount of transmitted information given at the first sight meant that more amount of transmitted information was given on each subsequent sihgt.
