200 Jahre Siebold. Die Japansammlungen Philipp Franz und Heinrich von Siebold

February 17th, 1996, marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the German doctor and scientist Philipp Franz von Siebold, who between 1823 and 1829 worked on Dejima, Nagasaki in the service of the Dutch. He not only taught numerous Japanese students modern European medicine and natural science, but himself deepened the exploration of Japan in the fields of the natural science and humanities, thus laying the foundations of European Japanology and Japanese Studies. The present catalogue documents the exhibition, which was organised by the German Institute for Japanese Studies in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Ōsaka, the Edo-Tōkyō Museum of the City of Tōkyō and the Hayashibara Museum of Art, Okayama, and was supported by the Yomiuri Newspaper, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of this famous researcher on Japan. In addition to introductory essays on the meaning and history of the Japan collections of Philipp Franz von Siebold and his son, Heinrich, the German-Japanese bilingual catalogue offers, for the most part, colour photographs of the approximately 730 objects contained in the collection. The catalogue is supplemented by Vol. 12 of the Miscellanea-series of the DIJ.