Japanese herbal, 17th century

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Japanese herbal, 17th century. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"Kruid Boek getrokken uyt Dodoneaus",- "Herbal extracted from Dodoneaus". 17th century. Hand-coloured drawing of plant (allium genus?) pasted onto Japanese paper. Book is bound in a European fashion. The name of the plant is written in Chinese character and in Latin, with notes in Dutch and transliterations of the Latin and Dutch name into Japanese katakana.

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