Activity Peep - Activity Peep

...They were not made much in the latter half of the Edo period, but they still survived into the Meiji period and after. Another Western toy of this type is the zoetrope (wheel of life), in which a picture is rotated inside a cylinder and viewed through a peephole in the cylinder. The picture is drawn like a cartoon film, and as it rotates, it moves like a movie and is projected onto the eye. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Activity Peep Show" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…江戸時代後半はあまり作られなかったが，それでも明治時代以降にも残った。また西洋のこの種のおもちゃに〈活動のぞき絵zoetrope(wheel of life)〉があり，円筒の中で絵を回転させて，円筒に設けたのぞき穴から見る。絵は漫画映画のフィルムの絵のように描き，回転すれば映画のように活動して目に映じる。…

※「活動のぞき絵」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報