Wakan Sansai Zue
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The Wakan Sansai Zue (和漢三才図会, lit. "Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia") is an illustrated
constellations. It depicts the people of "different/strange lands" (ikoku) and "outer barbarian peoples".[1]
Sources used
As seen from the title of the book (
Ming work Sancai Tuhui ("Pictorial..." or "Illustrated Compendium of the Three Powers") by Wang Qi
(1607), known in Japan as the Sansai Zue (三才図会). Reproductions of the Wakan Sansai Zue are still in print in Japan.
References
- ISSN 2254-8718.
External links
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- (in Japanese) Scans of the pages are available in the Digital Library of the National Diet Library, Japan.
- Samples on the human body from the Japanese encyclopedia at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-06-12)
- Scans of copies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are available at the Internet Archive: volumes 1-8, 9-15, 16-36, 37-47, 48-60, 66-72, 72-77, 78-87, 88-95, 96-105 with index.
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