#zufu

[smithsonianlibraries]

An interaction between cats, dogs, and birds from Chōsen koseki zufu v.14.

Full text here.

[japanese-plants]

Poppies by Sadao Murakami (active 1900s), included in Hyakka Hana Zufu (One Hundred Flower Pictures) published in 1932

[harvardfineartslib]

Last week, we had a wonderful tour of the Harvard-Yenching Library, the most comprehensive East Asian collection for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Western materials in the United States.

Thank you so much to our colleagues in the Harvard-Yenching Library for the tour and showing us some of your exquisite collections!

Image 1: Video showing some books from the Japanese Collection

Image 2: Kuniko Yamada McVey, Librarian for the Japanese Collection, showing us the 1920 publication of the wood block prints of flowers.

Image 3: Detail from one of the folded books, showing a woodblock print of cyclamen.

Image 4: From the Special Collections

西洋草花圖譜 Seiyō kusabana zufu 谷上廣南著畵. Tanikami Kōnan choga. Author / Creator 谷上廣南. Tanikami, Kōnan. Published: 京都市 : 芸艸堂, 大正 6 [1917] Kyōto-shi : Unsōdō, Taishō 6 [1917] 5 v. : chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm. Japanese HOLLIS number: 990081538480203941

National Diet Library of Japan, digitized all volumes and made publicly accessible.

若冲畫譜 Jakuchū gafu [若冲居子; 編輯者近藤德太郎; 縮圖者山田光太郎]. [Jakuchū koji ; henshūsha Kondō Tokutarō ; shukuzusha Yamada Kōtarō]. Author / Creator 伊藤若冲, 1716-1800. Itō, Jakuchū, 1716-1800 Edition 再版. Saihan. Published: 京都 : 芸艸堂, 明治41 [1908] Kyōto : Unsōdō, Meiji 41 [1908] 4 v. : chiefly col. ill. ; 34 cm. Japanese Author / Creator 近藤德太郎. Kondō, Tokutarō Meiji 41 [1908] HOLLIS number: 990081537280203941

[heaveninawildflower]

Papaver somniferum var paeoniflorum taken from  'Honzō zufu' (1828) by Kan'en Iwasaki (Japan, 1786-1842).

Woodblock print.

Wikimedia.

[cupofmeat]

Honzo Zufu (Lotus), Kan'en Iwasaki, 19th century.

[auroraborealis22]

Honzo Zufu [Yellow & White Chrysanths] Kan'en Iwasaki

[jadeseadragon]

Tanigami Kônan (Japanese, 1879-1928), from Seiyo Soka Zufu, published 1917 in Kyoto, Taisho Era. 

Digitally enhanced by RawPixel.

[konjaku]

唐鼠黐[Tōnezumimochi] Ligustrum lucidum

唐[Tō] : Old China, Tang dynasty

鼠[Nezumi] : Rat, mouse

黐[Mochi] : 黐木[Mochinoki](Ilex integra)

鼠黐[Nezumimochi] : Wax-leaf privet(Ligustrum japonicum)

It is a naturalized plant that introduced during the Meiji period(1868-1912) and has since been feral in many places. Although much like the native species Nezumimochi, it has larger and thinner leaves, and when held up to the sun, the veins of the leaves show through.

雪ふりの明る日ぬくし藪椿　 之道 「ヤブツバキ」という植物は別にあるらしい。『本草圖譜』などは女貞（ネズミモチ）の一名として「ヤブツバキ」を擧げてゐる。さふいふ事の當否は専門家の知識に俟たなければならぬが、もと／＼俳句は博物學に立脚したものでなし、俳人は植物學者ではないのだから、どう解決がついたにしろ、それのみに則るわけには行きさうもない。この句なども女貞と解したのでは、やはり面白くないやうである。

[Yuki furi no akuru hi nukushi yabutsubaki　Shidō 「Yabutsubaki」 to iu shokubutsu wa betsu ni aru rashii. 『Honzō zufu』 nado wa jotei (nezumimochi) no ichimei toshite 「Yabutsubaki」 wo agete iru. Sō iu koto no tōhi wa senmonka no chishiki ni matanakereba naranu ga, motomoto haiku wa hakubutsugaku ni rikkyaku shita mono denashi, haijin wa shokubutsu-gakusha dewa nai nodakara, dō kaiketsu ga tsuita nishiro, sore nomi ni nottoru wake niwa ikisō mo nai. Kono ku nado mo jotei to kaishita nodewa, yahari omoshiroku nai yō dearu.] (Today,) the day after a snowfall, it's warm and a flower of Yabutsubaki(Camellia japonica) is blooming.　Shidō There is apparently another plant called "Yabutsubaki". "Honzō zufu(The botanical illustrated reference book; written in the Edo period)" mentions "Yabutsubaki" as another name for Jotei (Nezumimochi). Although we can only rely on the knowledge of experts to determine the suitability of such things, since haiku is not based on natural history, and haiku poets are not botanists, so no matter how it is resolved, it is not likely to be based solely on that. This haiku also does not seem to be interesting if it is interpreted as Nezumimochi. From 古句を観る[Koku wo miru](Appreciating haikus from the past) by 柴田 宵曲[Shibata Shōkyoku] Source : https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1128306/1/35 Shidō, or 槐本 之道(Emoto Shidō), is one of Matsuo Bashō's students. The relevant page in Honzō Zufu : https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/926450/1/7

[kinderfunk]

honzo zufu

[steliosagapitos]

~ "Vintage cineraria flowers, 1917 edition of Seiyô SÔKA ZUFU by Tanigami Kônan, digitaly enhanced by rawpixel." ~

[japanese-plants]

Cherry by Sadahide Utagawa (1807-1873), included in Bansho Shashin Zufu (Varieties of Natural Phenomena) published in 1864

[love-for-carnation]

China pink and Eurasian tree sparrow Hiroshige III Utagawa (1842-1894), included in Kacho Zufu (Pictures of Flowers and Birds) – Japanese flower and bird picture book published in the late 1800s.

[belkanmercn]

Watched Twilight Gemini and Dead Or Alive in one night, and i was suprised when i recognized one of the voices in one of the movies! (hint, its Megure from Detco)

The Middle Eastern vibes in Twilight Gemini remind me a bit of Indiana Jones, and Zufu's setting, which was a prosperous, technologically advanced nation which devolved into a war-torn country was pretty cool too.

(I just realized these two were released within 4 months of eachother what the fu)

[p0rrijjjjjjjjjjjj]

Botanical illustrations by Hiwasaki Kan’en’s

(“Honzo Zufu”)

[auroraborealis22]

Honzo Zufu [Lotus] Kan'en Iwasaki

[jadeseadragon]

Tanigami Kônan (Japanese, 1879-1928), from Seiyo Soka Zufu, published 1917 in Kyoto, Taisho Era.

Digitally enhanced by RawPixel.