Glasses picture - Glasses

A picture seen through convex lens glasses. There are two types: "nozokie" (peep picture), in which a picture is placed on one side of a box and a lens is placed on the other side to enlarge the picture, and "karakuri-e" (peep show) used in peep mechanisms. In the latter, the picture is placed on a flat surface and reflected on a mirror placed at a 45 degree angle above it, and the image on the mirror is then enlarged with a convex lens, so the picture is painted in reverse. In Europe, they were mainly made in Paris and Augsburg and became popular in the 18th century, but were introduced to Japan via China as early as the first half of the same century. The perspective representation drawn using the perspective method of Western painting was seen as unusual and became popular, and masters such as Maruyama Okyo and Shiba Kokan produced many spectacles pictures in the early period. A type of Western-style painting that became popular from the mid-Edo period onwards, ukiyo-e, which is a genre of ukiyo-e, is also thought to have been born under the influence of Chinese Qing dynasty eyeglass paintings.

[Tadashi Kobayashi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

凸レンズの眼鏡を通して見る絵。箱の一方に絵をはめ、他方にレンズを置いて拡大して見るだけの「覗絵(のぞきえ)」と、のぞきからくり（覗機関）に用いる「からくり絵」の2種類がある。後者は、平面に置いた絵をその上に45度の傾斜角で設置した鏡に映し、さらに鏡面の像を凸レンズで拡大して見るため、画面は左右逆像に描かれている。ヨーロッパではパリとアウクスブルクでおもにつくられ、18世紀に入ってから普及したが、同世紀前半のうちに早くも中国経由で日本に伝わっている。西洋画の透視図法で描いた遠近表現が珍しがられて流行し、円山応挙(まるやまおうきょ)や司馬江漢(こうかん)らの大家も、その初期には多くの眼鏡絵を制作している。江戸中期以降に流行する洋風画の一種で、浮世絵の一ジャンルとなる「浮絵(うきえ)」も中国清(しん)朝の眼鏡絵の影響によって生まれたと考えられている。

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