PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quantify a skin wrinkle condition highly accurately on the basis of skin images.SOLUTION: An analytical method for wrinkles includes steps as follows: obtaining a brightness image of skin at an analyzed-targets position calculating distribution information of power spectra for each angle by applying the Fourier transform to the skin brightness image and then calculating the directional entropy indicating the size of the deflection of the distribution of the power spectra for each angle by using the distribution information.