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Gruesome Japanese Anatomical Illustrations
Category: Brains and Stuff
Posted on: May 1, 2008 6:12 PM, by Steve Higgins
I love antique anatomical drawings of the brain. I even have a couple in my office that I should probably take a picture of to show off to you guys. These illustrations from Japan are particularly interesting. According to Pink Tentacle:
The Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls, painted in 1819 by Kyoto-area physician Yasukazu Minagaki (1784-1825), consist of beautifully realistic, if not gruesome, depictions of scientific human dissection.Unlike European anatomical drawings of the time, which tended to depict the corpse as a living thing devoid of pain (and often in some sort of Greek pose), these realistic illustrations show blood and other fluids leaking from subjects with ghastly facial expressions.
-via boingboing-
Brain & Behavior
Humanities & Social Science
Comments
Those are beautiful (if, yes, gruesome)!
Did you see the NYTimes story on the stereoscopic body atlas? If you like these prints, you might like those slides.
Linked here: http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-than-skin-deep.html
Posted by: Cuttlefish | May 1, 2008 6:57 PM
Gorgeous ink washes. That's tremedously smooth gradation on the face. Difficult to do.
This would be hard to leave hanging on a wall though.
Posted by: The Flying Trilobite | May 1, 2008 8:21 PM
The blood dripping out of the dead guy's mouth is kewl.
Posted by: Greg Laden | May 1, 2008 9:21 PM
The drawings are really cool, but the thought of the artist having an oozing, half-dissected head on the table is not quite as cool. ;)
Posted by: raiko | May 2, 2008 2:35 AM