- Fauna Japonica
Fauna Japonica is a series of
monographs on thezoology of JapanThe full title is "Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1825 - 1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Conjunctis studiis C. J. Temminck et H. Schlegel pro vertebratis atque W. de Haan pro invertebratis elaborata".
Based on the collections made by
Philipp Franz von Siebold (who edited the text) and his successorHeinrich Bürger in Japan, Fauna Japonica’s vertebrate volumes were authored by the Leyden Museum naturalistsCoenraad Jacob Temminck andHermann Schlegel .Wilhem de Haan ,also at the Leyden museum wrote the invertebrate volumes assisted by the Japanese artist naturalistsKeiga Kawahara Kurimoto Masayoshi and others.It was published serially in five volumes between 1833 and 1850.
This was the first book written in a European language (French) on the Japanese fauna.
References
* Masuzō Ueno, 1964 : The Western Influence on Natural History in Japan, "Monumenta Nipponica", 19 (3/4) : 315-339. ISSN|0027-0741
External links
* [http://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/b05/b05cont.html Kyoto University Library]
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