{"id":"adinkra","no":189,"name":"Adinkra","ja":"アディンクラ","era":"19th century–","family":"記号体系","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 10","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"Cooper Hewitt — Adinkra: Message and Medium","url":"https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/09/07/adinkra-message-and-medium/"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/09/07/adinkra-message-and-medium/","credit":"Cooper Hewitt — Adinkra: Message and Medium","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adinkra%20cloth.JPG?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adinkra%20cloth.JPG","credit":"アディンクラ布 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adinkra%20printing.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adinkra%20printing.jpg","credit":"アディンクラの捺染（CC BY 3.0）"}]},"essence":"アカンの格言を図形に圧縮した記号体系で、瓢箪の版で布に捺され、一つの図形が一つの思想を運ぶグラフィック言語として機能する。","cues":["格言を運ぶ図形","瓢箪スタンプの捺し","反復のグリッド","喪と儀礼の布"],"intents":["信頼","静けさ","親密"],"works":["一つの図形に一つの理念を担わせる、アイコン体系の設計を学ぶとき","反復して捺すことで意味が重なる、布や包材の文様を作る仕事"],"recipe":{"type":"図形と説明文を離し、記号が単独で立つ大きさまで拡大する","layout":"格子に等間隔で並べ、区画ごとに図形を替えて意味を並列させる","material":"版で捺した掠れとインクの濃淡を残し、布地の目を透かせる"},"avoid":"意味を調べずに形の良さだけで図形を選ぶと、格言同士が矛盾し、着る人に別の言葉を語らせてしまう。","colors":["#e5e5e5","#7fc7e0","#1a1a1b"],"motif":"archive","pair":["kente","isotype"],"study":["Gye NyameとSankofaの意味","格言と視覚記号の対応","現代アイデンティティでの再使用"],"en":{"essence":"The Akan compressed their proverbs into figures and stamped them onto cloth with gourd blocks. One shape carries one thought, which makes the set a working graphic language.","cues":["Figures that carry proverbs","Gourd-stamp printing","Repeating grids","Cloth of mourning and rite"],"works":["Studying icon systems where one shape has to carry one idea","Cloth and packaging patterns whose meaning accumulates through repeated stamping"],"recipe":{"type":"Separate figure from caption, scale each sign until it stands alone","layout":"Even grid, a different figure per block so meanings sit in parallel","material":"Keep the skips and ink variation of stamping, let the weave show"},"avoid":"Choosing figures for their shape without checking meaning sets proverbs against each other and makes the wearer say something they never intended.","study":["Gye Nyame and Sankofa","the mapping of proverb to sign","reuse in contemporary identity"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/adinkra","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/adinkra","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/adinkra/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/adinkra/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}