A Study on the Relationship between Images of Colors Derived from Plants and Color Names
The colors have a close to our life and there are many color names derived from plants in Japan. This study aimed to analyze relationship people and plants and investigated what the images of colors derived from plants related to the color names. Surveys on color images of abstract and concrete were conducted with adults who lived in the metropolitan area and in urban areas. The subjects were surveyed about images of similar colors derived from plants (3 type of similar two colors; pink, green and yellow) and asked to select a pair of color names (momo or pink, midori or green, yamabuki or lemon) corresponding to the color. The subjects were simultaneously presented with two similar colors and asked to give their perceptions of each color against 13 polar opposite pairs of terms or phrases using a Semantic Differential Scale, and asked to select the number of the 16 items concerned with life such as clothes and food. With the pink colors, many subjects did not feel opposite abstract images between these to similar colors and felt the same concrete images such as cosmetics and clothes, and these color names such as momo and pink are confused. With the green colors and the yellow colors, many subjects felt opposite abstract images between these two similar colors such as natural-artificial and rural- urban and different concrete images such as plants and plastics, and these two similar colors ale distinguished by the color names such as midori- green and yamabuki-lemon. The results revealed that there are two patterns in the relationship colors derived from plants, color images and color names. In the pattern which images of colors derived from plants are connected with artificial things irrelevant to plants, the color names corresponding to the two similar colors are confused. On the other hand, in the pattern which images of colors derived from plants are connected with plants and artificial things, the two similar colors are distinguished by their color names. So demographics influenced the images of color, younger subjects compared with older tend to obviously distinguish images of colors derived from plants, and there are images of color influenced by the environment as a child. In both patterns, images of colors derived from plants are influenced by artificial things and natural colors are limited among many people. These results indicate that there are a few opportunities to see colors of plants which are full of variety. These results suggest that it is necessary to recognize colors derived from plants in relation to plants and to educate regarding the nature of plants, therefore landscape architecture focused on colors of plants is required.
Colors Derived from Plants Color Names Color Images Relationship between People and Plants Artificial
Kinuko Masuda Yutaka Iwasaki
Chiba University Graduate School of Horticulture
国际会议
第10届中日韩国际风景园林学术研讨会(10th International Landscape Architecture Symposium of Korea,China and Japan)
韩国京畿道
英文
78-83
2007-10-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）