Investigation and analysis of color terms in modern Japanese

Shoji Tominaga; Ayaji Ono; Takahiko Horiuchi

doi:10.1117/12.838884

18 January 2010 Investigation and analysis of color terms in modern Japanese

Shoji Tominaga, Ayaji Ono, Takahiko Horiuchi

Proceedings Volume 7528, Color Imaging XV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 752804 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838884
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2010, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This paper describes the investigation and analysis of color terms in modern Japanese. Japanese people use a large vocabulary of color terms in Japanese unconsciously in their daily life. The authors have studied the basic color terms. The color vocabulary was investigated for modern Japanese over 6 years, and in all 2,100 subjects participated in the vocabulary test. This paper shows the investigation process and analyzes the collected color vocabularies from various points of view. The vocabulary test is based on a questionnaire format without showing any color samples, where each subject was requested to answer the question items for color names in two levels of importance. Therefore we collected their recall color names without a priori clue such as color samples. The frequency of occurrence of the responded color names is statistically evaluated, and then the importance of color names is analyzed from various points of view.

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Shoji Tominaga, Ayaji Ono, and Takahiko Horiuchi "Investigation and analysis of color terms in modern Japanese", Proc. SPIE 7528, Color Imaging XV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 752804 (18 January 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838884

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