The Science Museum of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has begun to release eight wall drawings for botany professors from the days of the school's predecessor, the Tokyo Sericulture Training Institute, as a digital archive.Since the Meiji era, it has been used as a teaching material for classes along with textbooks, and can be said to be a valuable historical document that shows the actual state of education in the Meiji era.
According to the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, the eight wall drawings were put up on the blackboard at the Tokyo Sericulture Training Institute and used in class.Produced with elaborate multicolor lithography, issued in 8 by Tokyo Kaiseikan Publishing.When a new form of botany, incorporating elements of morphology and ecology from the West, was introduced in the Meiji era, Western plants were depicted in textbooks. become a thing.
The eight wall paintings were added to the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Digital Archive Silk Academic Collection to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the founding of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology says, "We want you to get a sense of the botany of the time from the actual materials."
Along with the digital release, of the eight works, "Botanical Professor's Wall Picture No. 8: Ecology of Flowers" and "Botanical Professor's Wall Picture No. 1: Flower Morphology" were exhibited at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Science Museum exhibition room in Nakamachi, Koganei City, Tokyo. is on display for free until the end of May.
