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Re: Japanese Woodblock Print Search

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Post by jeresig »

traeregan wrote: post #30
jeresig wrote: post #4

Thank you for sharing my site! I built this a number of years ago as I was starting to learn about Japanese prints. I wanted a single place where I could find them across all of the various museums and universities that hold them. I use computer vision analysis to cluster prints together (using TinEye). A bunch more technical details from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18344979 I’…

Amazing resource - thank you for creating it! We have "Red Gate in the Rain" by Kasamatsu Shiro [1] hanging in our home. I uploaded a photo of it and had a great time browsing other works by Shiro. My wife also noted that we'll eventually inherit Shiro's "Snow Falling at Red Gate" [2], in the same series, from her aunt. We've a couple other prints that I am going to search now... thanks again! [1] https://ukiyo-e.org…

Glad I was able to help, those are some great prints! fwiw, there is also an online catalog of Kasamatsu Shrio's prints and it looks like these are your prints there: https://shirokasamatsu.art/catalog/red-gate-in-the-rain/ https://shirokasamatsu.art/catalog/red-gate-in-the-snow/

Re: Japanese Woodblock Print Search

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Post by chickensong »

jeresig wrote: post #23
chickensong wrote: post #20

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Thank you for creating such a wonderful site! Woodblock printing is one of my favorite art forms. My grandparents visited Japan long ago and gifted me two wooden boxes, one with this print on the lid: https://ukiyo-e.org/image/aic/99027_512658 and the other with https://ukiyo-e.org/image/honolulu/8277 . They're secret boxes with no hinges or hardware, but if you press on certain locations in the correct order, sectio…

Oh that's very cool! I have a mailing list signup on the ukiyo-e.org home page, I'll send out a message there once it's ready for testing! I've posted some screenshots on Reddit that show some of the price comparison features: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukiyoe/comments/1p6c4lb/comment/nqp... https://www.reddit.com/r/ukiyoe/comments/1pjw8br/comment/nti...

Thanks, the screenshots look great. Subscribed!

Re: Japanese Woodblock Print Search

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Post by rgrieselhuber »

jeresig wrote: post #4

Thank you for sharing my site! I built this a number of years ago as I was starting to learn about Japanese prints. I wanted a single place where I could find them across all of the various museums and universities that hold them. I use computer vision analysis to cluster prints together (using TinEye). A bunch more technical details from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18344979 I’…

Nice! I was able to find my Father-in-law’s prints, he’ll enjoy checking this out.

Re: Japanese Woodblock Print Search

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Post by jeresig »

TrailingArbutus wrote: post #35

I was in tokyo for quite a while in my most formative years, i love thisss. I think TinEye usage is cool, but aren't there better CV models out there which would fit this use case? Just wondering.

Probably! I made this about 15 years ago - the technology is evolved a lot since then!
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