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NOBUTO, Kawaguchi (1736-1811). Kaishi hen zen [Complete Notes on the Dissection of a Cadaver]. Kyoto: An e I, 1772.
270 x 186 mm. 23 wood-engraved full-page illustrations (most hand colored) based on drawings by Yo Shunmin. Contemporary plain wrapper; silk folding case. Provenance: Jean Blondelet (sold Tajan, Paris, 23 October 2001, lot 13).
FIRST EDITION of Nobuto's description of his dissection of the cadaver of an executed criminal which he carried out in Kyoto in 1770, with the assistance of his master Ogino Gengai (1737-1806). After the first human dissection in 1754 by Yamawaki Toyo, Nobuto's was only the third to take place in Japan, following twelve years after the second, which had occurred in 1758. The twenty-three spectacular images, mostly hand-colored, are after drawings by Yo Shunmin of Kyoto, who was also a disciple of Ogino Gengai, a physician who was had studied Western medical theory but practiced traditional Eastern medicine. They reflect considerable advancement in detail from the woodcuts by Asanuma Suketsune published in 1759. Mestler, "A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books I", Bull. Med. Lib. Assoc., XLII (1954) p. 310.
270 x 186 mm. 23 wood-engraved full-page illustrations (most hand colored) based on drawings by Yo Shunmin. Contemporary plain wrapper; silk folding case. Provenance: Jean Blondelet (sold Tajan, Paris, 23 October 2001, lot 13).
FIRST EDITION of Nobuto's description of his dissection of the cadaver of an executed criminal which he carried out in Kyoto in 1770, with the assistance of his master Ogino Gengai (1737-1806). After the first human dissection in 1754 by Yamawaki Toyo, Nobuto's was only the third to take place in Japan, following twelve years after the second, which had occurred in 1758. The twenty-three spectacular images, mostly hand-colored, are after drawings by Yo Shunmin of Kyoto, who was also a disciple of Ogino Gengai, a physician who was had studied Western medical theory but practiced traditional Eastern medicine. They reflect considerable advancement in detail from the woodcuts by Asanuma Suketsune published in 1759. Mestler, "A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books I", Bull. Med. Lib. Assoc., XLII (1954) p. 310.