TAB Event - "Natural History Albums - The Development of Natural History Study in Japan" Exhibition

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At Tokyo National Museum
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The development of museum studies in Japan began with surveys and studies of the entire country conducted by the Kyoho shogunate (1716-35), spurred on by the introduction of Western museum studies introduced to Japan with the opening of her seaports. The result of this was the birth of several "museum atlases" that thoroughly scrutinized all manner of things from a scientific perspective.
A museum atlas compiles pictures and diagrams together with names, the various tastes of foods, and facts and information pertinent to local areas in something like an almanac or album. With the exchange of information in these albums, obtaining information from other areas helped the process of making copies of such albums with the same information contained within them.
Such atlases were not written in the manner of normal books, but rather relied on information that had been researched and then recorded with illustrated memos, tables of contents corrected and altered repeatedly. This exhibition will also display materials that illustrate the painstaking process of actually producing an atlas. Also on display will be materials from China and Meiji-era museum atlases.
The atlases on display in this exhibition, as well as the databases containing images of the atlases in the museum's collection will be available for public viewing on the museum's website under the "Tokyo National Museum Information Archive" section.

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