{"id":"mincho","no":174,"name":"Mincho","ja":"明朝体","era":"19th century–","family":"和文書体","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 08","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"印刷博物館 — 東京築地活版製造所活字","url":"https://www.printing-museum.org/collection/looking/75936.php"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.printing-museum.org/collection/looking/75936.php","credit":"印刷博物館 — 東京築地活版製造所活字","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mintyotai.svg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mintyotai.svg","credit":"明朝体の構造見本"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1827%20Kangxi%20Chinese%20Dictionary%20Frontispiece.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1827%20Kangxi%20Chinese%20Dictionary%20Frontispiece.jpg","credit":"『康熙字典』1827"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Japanse%20karakters%20-%20Japanese%20characters%20(3774081365).jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanse%20karakters%20-%20Japanese%20characters%20(3774081365).jpg","credit":"日本語の金属活字"}]},"essence":"楷書の骨格を彫刻に適した横細縦太の画線へ整理し、ウロコを持つ端正な字面で日本語の本文組みを支え続ける。","cues":["横細縦太の画線","ウロコ","楷書由来の骨格","本文の安定した黒み"],"intents":["信頼","静けさ"],"works":["日本語の長文・書籍・雑誌の本文を組む","格式と静けさのある和文の声を作る"],"recipe":{"type":"参照作品の文字・記号・スケールを観察する","layout":"視線と情報を支配する構造を一つ抽出する","material":"時代・地域・制作工程に固有の素材と挙動を確認する"},"avoid":"表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。","colors":["#f0ece3","#8c8578","#1c1a17"],"motif":"type","pair":["japanese-gothic","letterpress"],"study":["本木昌造","東京築地活版製造所","電胎法による活字製造"],"en":{"essence":"Regularizes the kaisho skeleton into thin horizontals and thick verticals fit for carving — with its uroko serifs, it still carries Japanese text setting.","cues":["Thin horizontals, thick verticals","Uroko serifs","Kaisho-derived skeleton","Steady text-block color"],"works":["Setting long-form Japanese in books and magazines","A formal, quiet Japanese voice"],"recipe":{"type":"Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works","layout":"Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information","material":"Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process"},"avoid":"Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.","study":["Motoki Shōzō","the Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry","electrotype matrix making"]}}