MS Japanese 26

A woodblock printed manual for the treatment of emergency conditions, including loss of consciousness, injuries, accidents, poisoning and gynaecological and pediatric emergencies, with monochrome illustrations. It was written in hiragana-majiri by Taki Rankei (1732–1801), also known as Motonori, assisted by his eldest son, Taki Keizan (1755–1810), also known as Motoyasu. The Taki family were for generations in service to the Bakufu government as doctors. This work was published in 1790 by the Seijukan, a medical school in Edo founded by Ranekei's father, Mototaka in 1765, distributed by Suharaya Kasuke of Edo et al, and printed at an unknown later date by Hanabusa Heikichi of Edo. 　

Japan, 1790

Material: paper; 3冊 3巻 | 3 volumes (3 sections); binding dimensions: height 271mm, width 183mm, depth 51mm

Purchased by the Wellcome Library at auction from Stevens’s on 28 October 1930.