"Illustrated Guide to Strange Shells"

Japanese: 《奇貝図譜》 - きばいずふ
"Illustrated Guide to Strange Shells"

...Beginning with Fukane Sukehito's "Honsho Wamyo" (around 918), many more were published during the Edo period. Oe Ryuho's "Kaitsukushi Ura no Nishiki" (1749) and Matsuoka Gentatsu's "Igan Saikaihin" (1758) were published, and Kimura Kenkadou's "Kigai Zufu" (Illustrated Guide to Strange Shells) (1775) illustrated many deep-sea shells, including the red sea slug. This was 80 years before the discovery of the "living fossil" sea slug in the West Indies, which astonished the academic community, in 1855.

*Some of the terminology used in "Illustrated Guide to Strange Shells" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…深根輔仁の《本草和名》(918ころ)に始まり,江戸時代に入って多くなった。大江流芳の《貝尽(かいつくし)浦の錦》(1749)や松岡玄達の《怡顔斉介品(いがんさいかいひん)》(1758)などが出,また木村蒹葭堂(けんかどう)の《奇貝図譜》(1775)はベニオキナエビスガイはじめ多くの深海産の貝を図説したものである。〈生きている化石〉オキナエビスガイが西インド諸島で発見されて学会を驚かせたのが1855年であるから,それより80年も前のことである。…

※「《奇貝図譜》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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