Why do the Japanese editions have better pictures? Here, fir, cedar, osmanthus, and pine from an Edo edition of the Bencao gangmu tu 本草綱目圖 https://t.co/hCc7w5eN3v. HT: @JeffreyKotyk https://t.co/YgJqZHNDI6
The National Diet Library of Japan 国立国会図書館 has a lot of great digital resources, including many scanned texts from China and Japan. I often find print editions which I can use and cite. Here are some materia medica prints. 本草綱目圖3卷. https://t.co/MFRUcBV67K https://t.co/qrU696OveY
Drawings of foreign #horses being imported to Nagasaki. The 8th Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune imported Western horses via Dutch ships several times. #ndldigital https://t.co/FPRvCdRwyf https://t.co/Spu8k0qhuw