Recreating the past City Model of Historical Town Kawagoe from Antique Map

Existing colorful antique maps were mostly produced at the Edo period in Japan, and these antique maps which show situation of land use and streets in those days often give important information for studying history of city planning, civil engineering, architecture and so on. In particular, visualization of the past city model help to make understanding for situation at the time when the antique maps were produced more efficiently. On the other hands, virtual archeology has recently received more attention from possibility that people can appreciate or experience the archeological objects, the past space and art through the computer at any time and without going to the museum. With this motive, the authors have been concentrating on recreating the past city model and visualization using the attribute data such as shrine, house, street, river and so on which exist in the antique maps. Visualization of historical castle town Kawagoe, Saitama was demonstrated using 3D Computer Graphics in this paper. *Sayaka SUZUKI Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Denki University (Hatoyama, Saitama, 350-0394)