著者

吉野 政治 YOSHINO Masaharu

出版者

京都

雑誌

総合文化研究所紀要 = Bulletin of Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts (ISSN:09100105)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, pp.152(1)-138(15), 2011-03-31

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Every culture systematizes natural phenomena in its own way. Consider the number of colors of rainbow. Before the early Edo period, Japanese belived the rainbow had either 3 or 5 colors, depending on wether the Chinese theory of "Inyo-Gogyo-Setsu" or the old European astronony was applted. Following Newton's theory on the 7 color rays of sun, though, the Japanese bigan to see 7 color bands in the rainbow.