About this site

This digital exhibition is based on the catalog of the special exhibition "Fauna and Flora in Illustrations: Natural History of the Edo Era" <RA55-H14>, which was held at the Tokyo Main Library and Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library from October 14 to November 28, 2005.

Supervision

Many thanks to Mr. ISONO Naohide, Professor Emeritus of Keio University, for his many helpful suggestions. We thank him for his cooperation.

Commentary

Edited and prepared by the Special Exhibition Subcommittee of the Exhibition Committee, National Diet Library, under the guidance of the supervisor.

Provision of Materials/Cooperation

We would like to thank the following institutions for their cooperation in providing materials and other assistance in the creation of the exhibition. We would like to express our gratitude to them.

• The Toyo Bunko Foundation
• Tokyo National Museum
• Nagoya City Hogosa Bunko

Listed Materials

Except for materials provided by the above institutions, all materials listed here are under the jurisdiction of the Classical Records and Archives Department of the National Diet Library and can be accessed through the Digital Collections of the National Diet Library on the website.

Bibliographic Information

As a rule, bibliographic information is taken from the catalog of the special exhibition.

• In principle, the title of the book is transcribed as it appears in the material, and is listed in parentheses. Square books are listed in [ ] before the book title.
• Bibliographic information other than the title is not transcribed from the source material, but is standardized into a widely known form.
• Only the principal author is listed.
• Only the year of publication is given in the case of published books. For manuscripts, the year of copying and the copyist are given to the extent that it is possible to determine, while unknown manuscripts are simply referred to as manuscripts.
• The number of volumes and other information on the form of the materials are given in terms of the overall quantity of the materials and the volume number of the exhibited materials, while the size of the materials has been omitted.
• The size of the material has been omitted. The library's call number is indicated at the end of the document in < >.

Updates

September 16, 2005 - Simplified version (Japanese) was released.
December 1, 2005 - Full version (Japanese) was released.
February 27, 2024 - The site was renewed and English version was released.

※The old site is still available on the Web Archiving Project (WARP).

Reproduction of the contents

If you wish to reproduce any item or any portion of any item (image, document, article, data, etc.) in this exhibition, please complete the reproduction request form and send it to us in advance.

Please note that in some cases, you cannot use an image that belongs to another institution or posted with the permission of the copyright-holder.
For more details, please see Terms of Use of the National Diet Library Digital Exhibitions on the NDL website.

Contact information

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