The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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While doing research in Leiden, Maki Fukuoka discovered an unpublished manuscript entitled “Honzō shashin,” which was brought from Japan to Holland by the German physician Phillip Franz von Siebold. Honzō refers to materia medica; the term shashin means “photography” today, but the manuscript was written in 1826, decades before the medium of photography was introduced to Japan in the 1850s. What did shashin mean to Mizutani Hōbun, who compiled the manuscript and led a scholarly group called...

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The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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