著者

馬場 悠男 鈴木 一義

出版者

国立科学博物館

雑誌

Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series D, Anthropology (ISSN:03853039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.31, pp.1-9, 2005-12

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In the late Edo era, a human skeleton intended for medical education was carved from cypress wood by a craftsman, Ikeuchi under the supervision of a medical doctor, Banri Okuda in Osaka City. The model for the carving was based on a criminal's skeleton. The skeleton was beautifully made to be articulated and assembled by various methods, which reveals excellent craftsmanship. By and large, the wooden skeleton shows morphological characteristics usually seen in early middle-aged females of the Edo era. The wooden skeleton might have been used for the promotion of European medicine, which was emergent in the Edo era Japan, rather than for practical medical education.