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In Japanese art, a megane-e (眼鏡絵, 'optique picture') is a print designed using graphical perspective techniques and viewed through a convex lens to produce a three-dimensional effect. The term derives from the French vue d'optique. The device used to view them was called an Oranda megane (和蘭眼鏡, 'Dutch glasses') or nozoki megane (覗き眼鏡, 'peeping glasses'), and the pictures were also known as karakuri-e (繰絵, 'tricky picture').

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  • In Japanese art, a megane-e (眼鏡絵, 'optique picture') is a print designed using graphical perspective techniques and viewed through a convex lens to produce a three-dimensional effect. The term derives from the French vue d'optique. The device used to view them was called an Oranda megane (和蘭眼鏡, 'Dutch glasses') or nozoki megane (覗き眼鏡, 'peeping glasses'), and the pictures were also known as karakuri-e (繰絵, 'tricky picture'). Perspective boxes first appeared in Renaissance Europe and were popular until superseded by the stereoscope in the mid-19th century. The Dutch brought the first such device to Japan in the 1640s as a gift to the shōgun. The devices became popular in Japan only after the Chinese popularized them in Japan about 1758, after which they began to influence Japanese artists. The artist Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–95) made serious study of imported perspective techniques and applied them to his painting. He gained an interest in making ukiyo-e prints through the artist Utagawa Toyoharu, who produced uki-e 'floating pictures' using linear perspective techniques. Ōkyo began making uki-e prints for viewing through a convex lens: megane-e. Ōkyo later dismissed his megane-e, perhaps because their subjects were of kabuki and the pleasure quarters and thus considered of low artistic value. Prints by artists such as Utamaro and Masanobu depict people enjoying megane-e. (en)
  • 眼鏡絵(めがねえ)とは、江戸時代に描かれた浮世絵の一種。45度傾けた鏡に映した絵をレンズを通して覗いてみる風景画の一種で、それにより原画は絵や文字が左右反対に描かれている。 (ja)
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  • 眼鏡絵(めがねえ)とは、江戸時代に描かれた浮世絵の一種。45度傾けた鏡に映した絵をレンズを通して覗いてみる風景画の一種で、それにより原画は絵や文字が左右反対に描かれている。 (ja)
  • In Japanese art, a megane-e (眼鏡絵, 'optique picture') is a print designed using graphical perspective techniques and viewed through a convex lens to produce a three-dimensional effect. The term derives from the French vue d'optique. The device used to view them was called an Oranda megane (和蘭眼鏡, 'Dutch glasses') or nozoki megane (覗き眼鏡, 'peeping glasses'), and the pictures were also known as karakuri-e (繰絵, 'tricky picture'). (en)
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  • 眼鏡絵 (ja)
  • Megane-e (en)
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