[jeresig]

Uh - woah! This is incredibly unexpected. I'm really glad people are interested in my database and in Japanese prints!

From a technical perspective there've been a lot of interesting open source projects that I've made to support this site: https://johnresig.com/projects/ukiyoe/

I've also written a number of papers and given presentations on the work that I've done here (and elsewhere in the digital humanities). https://johnresig.com/research/

This is a talk that I gave in 2014 about the construction of the site and my reasons for building it: https://codeascraft.com/speakers/john-resig-analyzing-japane...

I've since worked on a number of other projects like a database for a consortium of Art History Photo Archives: http://images.pharosartresearch.org/

And I'm building another one now on Japanese Picture Books (from the 19th century and older).

These are all my "spare time" fun hobby projects, my day job is still at Khan Academy as a Frontend Architect. I just enjoy getting to explore other types of applications and problem spaces!

Happy to answer any questions anyone might have!

[JKCalhoun]

Amazing site.

I've recently fallen in love with the more modern ukiyo-e artists like Kawase Hasui: https://ukiyo-e.org/artist/kawase-hasui

Look at the shadows from the leaves of the unseen trees here: https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mak/images/13612-6.jpg

Now I can explore to my heart's content....

[stareatgoats]

I found this to be an incredible resource, not only for Japanese prints (a relatively new but definitely cool acquaintance) but also for the various open source technologies used.

Especially interesting to me is the https://github.com/mongaku/mongaku library for image searching. Haven't used it in a project yet, but expect I will. Thanks for this (and the other amazing things of immeasurable impact like jQuery you authored)!

[level3]

This is an amazing site! I haven't really gotten into ukiyo-e but this is so great for exploration and discovery. I think there are a lot of other genres/topics as well that I would love to have a site like this.

I appreciate the work put into making the site light and responsive, even with so many images. And I find the mouseover functionality really neat, too - even if it's not the most practical way to view hundreds (or thousands!) of works at a time, it's completely mesmerizing.

[LeonB]

It’s mesmerizing. I have to avoid going to that site as I know I’ll lose hours. Top work John!