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HANA NO OEDO NO ELEKITERU, HIRAGA GENNAI TO SONO JIDAI: EXHIBITION OF HIRAGA GEN
by SUNTORY MUSEUM OF ART
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[Tokyo] 1989, Suntory Museum of Art. Stiff buff wrs., very good, 55 color, 73 b.w. photos, 85p. Japanese text. Hiraga Gennai [1728-1779] was a famous and most celebrated writer and botanist. He became a Rangaku-sha [Scholar of Dutch Learning] and studied Dutch under a Dutchman in Naga- saki & then Chinese classics under Heizan Miura, and botany under Moto-o Tamura a physician and pharmacologist of the Shogunate. He wrote a large amount of books, made Japan's first thermometer. In 1776 he made a small electric generat- used for medical therapy purposes, and was the first Japan- ese to experiment with electricity. Learned Western style oil painting and operated a mine, translated Dutch books into Japanese. This work outlines his work as an inventor, naturalist, technician, novelist, poet, doctor, as well as the world of his fellow artists and scientists. See p. 283-4 in JAPAN BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA & WHO'S WHO for more details. .
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- HANA NO OEDO NO ELEKITERU, HIRAGA GENNAI TO SONO JIDAI: EXHIBITION OF HIRAGA GEN
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- SUNTORY MUSEUM OF ART
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- Japanese Social Science, History, Law, Economics & Eclectic Item; Japanese Medicine, Medicine Practice In Japan; Japanese Art: References On All Subjects, Aspects & Disciplines; Japanese Painting: Illustrated Art Reference Books;
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