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Wellcome has a rich collection of historical materials relating to Japan and Japanese culture, including prints, paintings, manuscripts and books.

Images from the collections

Images referencing Japan

627 images from works
  • Three flowering plants, including coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), common rue (Ruta graveolens), and a legume. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Five plants, possibly pinks (Dianthus species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • The history of Japan giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its ... minerals, trees ... animals ... and fishes; of the chronology ... of the emperors ... of the customs and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade ... with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam / Written in High Dutch by E. Kæmpfer ... and translated from his original manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... With the life of the author. And an introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in ... 1673.
  • Three leafy plant stems. Watercolour.
  • A Japanese woman seated. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.
  • Japanese maple (Acer palmatum): branch with leaves. Watercolour.
  • A plant, possibly a melon (Cucumis melo): flowering and fruiting stem with segments of the fruit. Watercolour.
  • Empress and court ladies in traditional formal dress on an outing to Kameido plum tree gardens to the east of Tokyo, to view the plum blossoms and write poems about them. Colour woodcut by Chikashige, 1878.

Works from the collections

1,429 works