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Inside the theatre
Movie list
Entering the Minami-za theatre
Walking on Shijo Street
Virtual Kabuki movie
Fig. 4. Virtual tour of virtual Kabuki performance in Virtual Kyoto
see that a current major street, Senbon-Dori still runs along the ancient route of the
main Heian street, Suzaku-Ohji, connected to the former palace main gate, but that
the width of the current street is much narrower compared to that of the ancient one.
Glancing across the digital diorama, we can browse existing historical arts and
cultural materials by clicking geolocated markers with labels of the digital contents.
We herein make use of the digital diorama as a gallery or museum platform of
digitised fine art objects related to specific locations in Kyoto.
Fig. 4 demonstrate how the system enables a virtual tour that includes experiencing
a virtual Kabuki performance, created by the technology of motion capture of Kabuki
actors, at the historical theatre, Minami-za, on Shijo Street. The tour begins with a
walk down the street that may represent the early Showa era (ca. 1920-1930) then a
change in the skyline of buildings and vistas of the mountains conveys the feeling of
the rapid urban development after World-War II. We can seamlessly walk into the
theatre from the road to see a virtual Kabuki performance; the inside of the theatre is
also modelled and incorporated the online virtual environment. By clicking the link
marker in the theatre, a popup window showing the list of streaming movies appears.
Although there are currently only two movies of digitised performances in our
system, in the future it would be possible to experience a series of virtual
experimental performances. In earlier townscape settings, we hope to present a variety
of older style performances in old theatre stages by combining motion-captured
movements with old costumes reflecting those in historical records.
As for historical landscapes, it is difficult to evaluate how physical landscapes are
culturally assessed and valued. A clue may be obtained from popular landscape
paintings that are often read by architects or geographers for debating humanistic
values of historical landscapes [12]. The web-based Virtual Kyoto has a set of links to
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