Interactive Visual Analysis of Personal Names in Japanese Historical Diary
Alejandro Szanto de Toledo, Ruck Thawonmas, Akira Maeda, Fuminori Kimura · 2009
Historical diaries provide information about and facilitate understanding of daily life during their periods. The historical diary of an aristocrat not only contains historic facts but might also help us disclose them. In this paper, we present an interactive web-based system for visualizing aristocrat names mentioned in a historical Japanese diary called “Hyohanki ” written by an aristocrat during the late Heian era (1132-1184). In our web-based system, the stacked graph is utilized to dynamically analyze the time-series of those aristocrat names. We have found that trends in the name occur-rence and co-occurrence visualized by the system cor-relate well with historic facts regarding the rise and fall of power of as well as the confrontation among the cor-responding aristocrats. 1.