The technology to digitize cultural properties and works of art so that they can be viewed in places other than their original place is advancing, and it is likely to spread as a means of transmitting new culture.
Of these, NTT East and others have digitized the "Phoenix" ceiling painting drawn by Katsushika Hokusai in his later years at Gansho-in in Obuse Town, Nagano Prefecture.
The "Phoenix" is 5.5 meters long and 6.3 meters wide, and 30 billion pixels of image data is printed on paper using a special technique and displayed in full-scale art museums in Tokyo. increase.
At this venue, you can appreciate the work up close, and there is also a corner where you can decorate the ceiling like the real thing and project the scenery of Iwamatsuin by projection mapping, so you can enjoy the work in the atmosphere of being in the field.
Manabu Kunieda, President of NTT Art Technology, said, "By taking on the challenge of disseminating information overseas, we would like to help revitalize the region in the future."
In addition, at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art, one of the exhibitions is reproduced three-dimensionally online so that it can be viewed from anywhere.
By getting to know the existence of the museum and connecting to new visitors, it seems that there will be a growing movement to use digital technology to disseminate culture and revitalize the region.