Art x Science : A Japanese eye

 

The nineteenth century anatomical drawings of Edo artist Takagi Haruyama . See more here.

I’ve always enjoyed these kind of illustrations, and I found a book of Japanese anamtomical illustrations from the Edo era, including Haruyama’s work as well as this fascinating but little-known illustration by artist Takanobu Koriki, who depicted the scene of a wicker replica of an elephant exhibited in a nineteenth-century Japanese freakshow to crowds who had, of course, never seen a real specimen.