{"id":697,"date":"2011-11-30T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2020-11-12T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:14:34","slug":"the-insect-art-of-kurimoto-tanshu%cc%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"The Insect Art of Kurimoto Tanshu\u0304"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 19th century court physician Kurimoto Tanshu<\/a> (\u6817\u672c\u4e39\u6d32) (also known as Kurimoto Masayoshi) was also an accomplished naturalist, and in 1811 compiled the beautiful 3-volume work entitled Senchu-f\u00fb<\/em><\/a>, which roughly translates as the Thousand Insects Manuscript<\/em><\/a>. Its pages are packed with detailed illustrations of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and just about every invertebrate that was known in Japan, along with a healthy amount of amphibians, fish, and other biological curiosities.  This whole work is worth taking a look, and not least for the glorious parasite centerfold pics!<\/p>\n

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In 1826 Kurimoto teamed up with the influential physician and naturalist Philipp Franz von Siebold<\/a>, and shared his illustrations and observations of crustaceans and invertebrates with Dutch naturalists. The resulting work, Fauna Japonica<\/a><\/em>, was the first European work detailing the wildlife of Japan.  While Kurimoto’s illustrations may not be as scientifically accurate<\/a>, they are beautiful compositions of information and observation, every one.<\/p>\n

The images come from the incredible digital archives at the National Diet Library of Japan<\/a>. The entire danged three-volume collection of Senchu-f\u00fb<\/em> can be viewed here<\/a>. Even if you don’t can’t read Japanese it’s worth the trip.\"z<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 19th century court physician Kurimoto Tanshu (\u6817\u672c\u4e39\u6d32) (also known as Kurimoto Masayoshi) was also an accomplished naturalist, and in 1811 compiled the beautiful 3-volume work entitled Senchu-f\u00fb, which roughly translates as the Thousand Insects Manuscript. Its pages are packed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,97],"tags":[32,81,306,304,203,103,305,78,303],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-literature","tag-beetle","tag-flea","tag-japan","tag-kurimoto-tanshu","tag-louse","tag-mosquito","tag-philipp-franz-von-siebold","tag-wasp","tag-303"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}