Scientific Illustration

lucem-sequimur:

Kaitai Shinsho is a medical text translated into Japanese during the Edo period. it is based on the Dutch-language translation of the original German Anatomische Tabellen. This is an illustrated copy.

Digital copy available at the Digital Gallery of Keio University Library. 

thingsofthisworld:

Anatomical illustrations from Edo-period Japan (1)

Zoku Yōka Hiroku (Sequel to Confidential Notes on the Treatment of Skin Growths), 1859

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thingsofthisworld:

Anatomical illustrations from Edo-period Japan (3)

Female dissection, 1774

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thingsofthisworld:

Human skeleton, 1732
These illustrations - created in 1732 for an article published in 1741 by an ophthalmologist in Kyōto named Toshuku Negoro - show the skeletal remains of two criminals that had been burned at the stake.

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thingsofthisworld:

KAISHI HEN, AN 18TH CENTURY JAPANESE ANATOMICAL ATLAS

colorthemoth:

Anatomy illustrations from Edo-period Japan, 1603-1868

_Kaishi hen. Kawaguchi Shinnin Shien cho. [“Complete notes on the dissection of cadavers”] is an anatomical atlas by japanese Kawaguchi Shinnin (1736-1811) with woodcut illustrations by Aoki Shukuya (d. 1802), published in Kyoto in 1772.

atelierentomologica:

Moth and Butterflies

Surinomo print by Kubo Shunman, Japan C19

rhamphotheca:

Sakhalin taimen (Hucho perryi)

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

… also called the Stringfish, Japanese huchen, or Ito, is a species of fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes. Sakhalin taimen is one of largest, most ancient salmon species and primarily inhabitats the lower to middle reaches of lakes and rivers.

Fishes over 30 cm long are almost exclusively piscivores, while the young feed mostly on aquatic insects. Females typically lay between 2,000-10,000 eggs in the spring on the sandy or gravelly river bottom. The average specimen caught have weighed around 5 kg (11 lb).

The global population of Sakhalin taimen has dwindled in recent years for a variety of reasons. The loss of more than 50% of their original habitat due to agriculture, urbanization, and more recently oil and gas development, is a major factor. Other considerable pressures include bycatch in the commercial salmon fisheries of Russia and Japan, as well as illegal fishing practices in Russia. The fish are also prized as trophies by Japanese recreational anglers…

(read more: Wikipedia)              

(illustration from Notes on some figures of Japanese fish : taken from recent specimens by the artists of the U. S. Japan expedition, 1856, James Carson Brevoort)

solareena:

Edo Period Japan Human Dissection and Anatomy Illustrations 1600s-1800s