A head divided into 35 cells representing human faculties. Woodcut, 1888, after M. Mihara.

  • Mihara, Muneaki, active ca. 1888.
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Meiji 21 [1888]
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2829831i
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A head divided into 35 cells representing human faculties. Woodcut, 1888, after M. Mihara. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Teaching by pictures the way of improving freely and easily the natural constitution of man
Jinshitsu henkan: jisai kyouikuhou zukai

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The woodcut represents the brain in 35 cells, each labelled extensively with woodcut text in Japanese and describing the human faculties in four groups: deliberation, comprehension, opinion, and taste. They probably derive from phrenological systems of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832), and from the charts published by their followers

Publication/Creation

[Japan] : Ritsuma Akiko, Meiji 21 [1888]

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1 print : woodcut ; woodcut 67.2 x 50.5 cm + cloth cover 17.5 x 13.5 cm

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The teaching by pietures the way of impraving freely am easely the natural constitution of man. Jinshitsu henkan: jisai kyouikuhou zukai Lettering along the top of the sheet in English and Japanese. Cover bears printed title label in Japanese: 自在教育法図解 : 人質変換

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Wellcome Collection 2829831i

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