Catalog

• Collections

Outline

Manuscripts, books and other printed material related to medicine, pharmaceutics, herbology collected by professor emeritus Wolfgang Michel (Michel-Zaitsu), former dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University. The collections comprises a considerable number of unique Japanese manuscripts related to Western medicine in 17th- and 18th-century Japan as well as rare early modern Western prints related to Japanese medicine. Parts of the collection are digitized.

Contents Type：Japanese and Western manuscripts and printed books

Subject：Medicine, pharmaceutics, herbology (Honzōgaku)