Sunfish

There are illustrations of sunfish depicted in Manbo-ko (About sunfish) and Chojugyo Shaseizu (Sketches of Birds, Animals, Fish). In Manbo-ko, KURIMOTO Tanshu, a doctor of the shogunate, copied nine illustrations from existing books and added his own observations to them.

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鳥獣魚冩生圖 斑車魚

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